Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences
Abstract
On February 6th, 2023, a sequence of devastating earthquakes hit the south and southeastern part of Türkiye. Numerous secondary hazards were triggered in the region, including thousands of landslides. This study investigated the landslides triggered by the 6 February 2023 Kahramanmaras Earthquakes. On the February 7th, the General Directorate of Mapping, Türkiye initiated several aerial photogrammetric flights and continued for several days. Although the adverse meteorological conditions affected the image quality, valuable data with a nominal resolution of 25 cm could be produced over an area of 108,627 km2. By comparing post-earthquake aerial orthophotos with pre-earthquake imagery stored in archives, we identified a total of 2,596 landslides, presumably triggered by the events, and analyzed their characteristics. This paper presents the methodology of the inventory preparation, characteristics of the landslides, and potential use cases of the inventory. The co-seismic landslide inventory produced here is also shared in the form of supplemental data.
Author ORCID Identifier
SULTAN KOCAMAN: 0000-0002-2775-7914
SİNEM ÇETİNKAYA: 0000-0001-5730-7052
NAZLI TUNAR ÖZCAN: 0000-0002-8629-4198
GİZEM KARAKAŞ: 0000-0003-2490-1519
VEYSEL EMRE KARAKAŞ: 0009-0009-0931-7606
CANDAN GÖKÇEOĞLU: 0000-0003-4762-9933
DOI
10.55730/1300-0985.1945
Keywords
Coseismic landslide, 6 February 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquakes (Türkiye), aerial photogrammetry, landslide inventory
First Page
47
Last Page
67
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
KOCAMAN, SULTAN; ÇETİNKAYA, SİNEM; TUNAR ÖZCAN, NAZLI; KARAKAŞ, GİZEM; KARAKAŞ, VEYSEL EMRE; and GÖKÇEOĞLU, CANDAN
(2025)
"Landslides triggered by the 6 February 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquakes (Türkiye),"
Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences: Vol. 34:
No.
1, Article 4.
https://doi.org/10.55730/1300-0985.1945
Available at:
https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/earth/vol34/iss1/4
