General Building Damage in the vicinity of Gölcük (click to enlarge):
General Building Damage in the vicinity of Gölcük
(click to enlarge):
Transportation Damages:
Highway
Trans European Motorway follows the fault line to the south of
Sapanca lake.Overpasses, designed with respect to modified AASHTO specifications, have
received varying degrees of damage. A collapsed overpass at Arifiye junction is shown
below.
The major highway (Trans European Motorway) in the vicinity of the fault rupture has buckled due to compresive forces for a length of 200m and damaged overpasses (the decks of one of the overpass has totally collapsed).
(Hurriyet daily newspaper)
Railway
Compression failures on the railway track at the south
of Sapanca Lake, in the vicinity of fault trace.
The section of the railroad between Izmit and Arifiye has been efected by the earthquake. Near Tepetarla station the lateral deformation of the railway is about 2.7m with about 1m vertical movement.
(Hurriyet daily newspaper)
Industrial Facilities:
Tupras (Turkish Petroleum Refineries Co.) is the biggest industrial facility in Turkey and the seventh in Europe. The company has the second valuable shares in Istanbul Stock Exchange Market among the others. Nowadays the government is planning to privatize the company which has a total treatment capacity of 27,6 millions of tons of petroleum a year. Tupras has four refineries located in Kırıkkale, Batman, Izmir and Izmit. The refinery in Izmit seen at the pictures below was built in 1961. Due to the earthquake, one of the crude oil tower collapsed . The fire started right after the earthquake has been taken under control as of 19/08/1999.
General Building Damage in the vicinity of Avcilar-Istanbul (click to enlarge):
