Special Event Page
August 17, 1999 - Turkey Quake

Monday, September 13 - large aftershock strikes Izmit region (5.8 Mb)

The following are links to sites, graphics or general information about the recent seismic event in Turkey and are contributed by the IRIS community. If you have any information you would like to add to this page, please contact us at webmaster@iris.washington.edu.

One Year Later - Special CNN report
(August 17, 2000)

Turkish Sites:

• http://www.istanbul.edu.tr/eng/jfm/jeofizik/deprem/indexeng.html - University of Istanbul
• http://www.koeri.boun.edu.tr/earthqk/earthquake.htm - A site created by the Kandilli Observatory & Earthquake Research Institute, Bogłazii University, including photos of damage, death tolls and geological field observations.
• http://tanasi.gg.utk.edu/izmit.html - U.S. MIRROR of the above site - much faster download.
• http://193.140.203.16/geophy/ingl/engver1.html - BU Kandilli Observatory & Earthquake Research Institute, Department of Geophysics Web page
• http://www.kou.edu.tr -- Kocaeli University
• http://www.turkishpress.com/ - Turkish Press Review
• http://Mantle.geop.itu.edu.tr/ - Istanbul Technical University / Department of Geophysics
• http://www.deprem.gov.tr/ - General Directorate of Disaster Affairs Earthquake Research Department of Turkey

European Sites:

• http://www.igf.edu.pl/seis/turkey.html - link to Polish station data
• http://www.gfz-potsdam.de/pb2/pb21/Task_Force/izmit/izmit_text.html - The Izmit Earthquake Mission of the German Task Force for Earthquakes
• ORFEUS - access to ORFEUS SPYDER^® data - KNMI / The Netherlands
• BBC news site
• http://emidius.itim.mi.cnr.it/GNDT/T19990817/report.html - National Group for Protection Against Earthquakes (GNDT) Preliminary report in Italian. Final report in English and Italian.

US Sites:

• Access to WILBER - browse seismograms, request SPYDER^® data
• QED Earthquake Bulletin and Map - from NEIC/USGS
• IRIS's Education and Outreach Page
• USGS Report - This page will feature reports and pictures sent back by a team of USGS scientists and engineers who are in Turkey now making both geologic and structural observations.
• http://groundmotion.cr.usgs.gov/izm/ - documents the ongoing USGS aftershock investigation in the field of the Izmet Earthquake.
• http://www.eeri.org - Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
• tectonic map with plate motions - submitted by Meredith Nettles, University of Arizona
• http://www.seismo-watch.com/EQS/AB/99/990817.Turkey7.8.html - SeismoWatch report page
• http://atlas.geo.cornell.edu/turkey/turkey.html - Eastern Turkey Seismic Experiment: Lithospheric Structure in an Active Continental Collision Zone / Cornell University
• http://www.geo.lsa.umich.edu/SeismoObs/STF.html - Source time functions
• http://www.okgeosurvey1.gov/level2/ok.grams/T990817.html - Six seismograms and a particle motion plot / Oklahoma Geological Survey
• http://quake.usgs.gov/study/deformation/anatolia-revGJI/ - 1996 USGS paper indicating the likelihood of an earthquake in the region of this event.
• http://earthbulletin.amnh.org/B/1/1/index.html - Earth Event Wall of the American Museum of Natural History (NEW 9/29/99)
• CNN news reports