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An Evaluation on Damage Assessment Works in
Kahramanmaraş Earthquake

Although there were difficulties in finding sufficient human resources for
such a comprehensive damage assessment, according to the data obtained
from the damage assessment software (HTS), about 8,000 technical personnel
involved in damage assessment studies in the Kahramanmaraş earthquake.
These persons were assigned by requesting from records in various
public institutions and organizations, building inspection and laboratory
organizations, municipalities, universities and chambers of engineers through
official correspondence. The logistics-supply needs and coordination of
all these technical personnel were provided by YIGM. It is thought that
coordination can be ensured more easily if all civil engineers and architects in
the country are electronically registered in a database and these people are
trained at certain intervals to keep the knowledge up to date.
Moreover, the citizens were informed by publishing the examination results
on hasartespit.csb.gov.tr while the damage assessment was still ongoing.
Assessment was performed again on the areas affected by the aftershocks
which are located in the earthquake-hit provinces, and despite this, damage
assessment, in general, lasted 45 days while the objection period took 20 days.
The first approval for the zones affected by the earthquakes were obtained
for 11 provinces, subsequently 17 provinces and one district were affected
as well. The total number of buildings in the 11 provinces affected by the
earthquake is given in Table 2, based on the Spatial Address Registration
System (MASK) data of the Ministry of the Interior, (Akgül & Etli̇, 2023).

Table 2. The total number of buildings in the 11 provinces affected by the earthquake

Province Residence Workplace Public Other Total
Adana 404.502 29.920 8.916 7.779 451.117
Adıyaman 107.242 5.765 4.370 3.119 120.496
Diyarbakır 199.138 11.412 11.964 3.165 225.679
Elazığ 106.569 7.221 2.872 7.051 123.713
Gaziantep 269.212 22.829 5.480 8.162 305.683
Hatay 357.467 33.511 10.382 5.489 406.849
Kahramanmaraş 219.351 12.358 6.879 4.565 243.153
Kilis 33.399 1.526 1.651 736 37.312
Malatya 159.896 8.370 6.670 4.051 178.987
Osmaniye 128.163 9.428 3.105 2.384 143.080
Şanlıurfa 347.902 18.847 11.790 4.089 382.628
Total 2.332.841 161.187 74.079 50.590 2.618.697

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