The “Earthquake Risk Reduction and Prevention Planning Project” was launched with the joint intervention of Bursa Metropolitan Municipality and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). A workforce of 12 specialists from Japan and the northwestern municipality will work within the area for 42 months for a extra disaster-resilient Bursa.
Bursa, situated within the first-degree earthquake zone, established a floor research analysis unit and likewise carried out Seismic Soil Hazard Assessment Projects within the province by signing a protocol with the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye (TÜBİTAK) and Marmara Research Center.
In addition, the groups will even decide the utmost earthquake magnitudes which will happen by monitoring the information of 15 stations monitoring 9 fault strains. Maps have been additionally ready because of the geophysical and drilling research carried out throughout the framework of the undertaking, together with a 3D bedrock depth map, 1/100,000 and 1/25,000 geological maps, and seismic hazard dangers.
The hazard and danger evaluation outcomes will probably be revealed 18 months after the undertaking begins, and the city resilience plan will probably be introduced on the finish of the undertaking.
Under the undertaking, areas with a excessive danger of harm in an earthquake will probably be decided. In addition to growing new tasks to scale back earthquake injury, measures to be taken within the quick, medium and long run will even be decided.
Metropolitan Municipality Secretary General Ulaş Akhan attended the primary assembly with Deputy Secretary General Gülten Kapıcıoğlu and Earthquake Risk Management and Urban Improvement Department head İbrahim Eken to seek the advice of in regards to the work and plans to be accomplished.
Earthquake and Soil Investigation Branch Manager Ahmet Ağlan mentioned that the JICA and Bursa Metropolitan Municipality have collaborated for about two years. “We will benefit from their knowledge and experience in this process and aim for a great infrastructure for urban transformation,” Ağlan mentioned.
Shinichi Fukasawa, the chief of the JICA professional workforce, said that they might decide the earthquake danger in Bursa, talk about essentially the most correct city planning and talk about how the undertaking could be developed. The primary aim is to find out what could be accomplished earlier than the catastrophe, not after the catastrophe, Fukasawa mentioned.
“Japan is a country that is highly affected by earthquakes, and Türkiye is also located in an earthquake zone. The sharing of experience between the two countries can be a fruitful step forward with a healthier plan to save the countries from massive destruction like that caused by Feb. 6 earthquakes,” he added.
Source: www.dailysabah.com
