Other, pp.85-91, 2023
The "Emergency Response and Community Impact" section of the reconnaissance report was
prepared by evaluating the period from the first earthquakes on February 6 to February 14, based
on daily or even hourly preliminary data collected across the region. When this report is published,
many of the problems pointed out here in the days and hours after the earthquake might probably
be solved for many parts of the region. The main purpose of this section of the report is to reveal
the actual situation in the emergency response and the effects of this situation on the communities
in the period that lasted for 9 days after the major destructive earthquakes. An expanded version
of this section is available on the METU-EERC website.