Reconnaissance Visit to Van Earthquake (23 Oct 2011, Mw7.3)Prone area, Day-1
Day-1: 17 Nov. 2011:
We just arrived in Van, Turkey, for a reconnaissance Visit to the Ercis (Van) Earthquake (23 Oct 2011, Mw7.3). We are a team, of IIEES, comprised from Myself, Dr Ehrahim Haghshenas and Dr Morteza Bastami.
we visited this afternoon the city center of Van and the location of some demolished buildings. it seems that there are some site effect reasons for some localized building collapses. Some buildings are not totally collapsed, however there are essentially out of order and ready to collapse (!) maybe by a following aftershock.
The people in Van are mostly the Kurds and Turks and all are very kind and ready to help us in any way they can. There is a problem of English speaking for communication, however one of our colleagues, Dr Bastami, is Iranian Kurd, and we may have a way of communication with a mixture of Kurd/Turk/Persian/English combination of words! and it works!!!
We just arrived in Van, Turkey, for a reconnaissance Visit to the Ercis (Van) Earthquake (23 Oct 2011, Mw7.3). We are a team, of IIEES, comprised from Myself, Dr Ehrahim Haghshenas and Dr Morteza Bastami.
we visited this afternoon the city center of Van and the location of some demolished buildings. it seems that there are some site effect reasons for some localized building collapses. Some buildings are not totally collapsed, however there are essentially out of order and ready to collapse (!) maybe by a following aftershock.
The people in Van are mostly the Kurds and Turks and all are very kind and ready to help us in any way they can. There is a problem of English speaking for communication, however one of our colleagues, Dr Bastami, is Iranian Kurd, and we may have a way of communication with a mixture of Kurd/Turk/Persian/English combination of words! and it works!!!
posted by Mehdi ZARE | 11/18/2011 08:13:00 PM
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