EARTHQUAKE DEPARTMENT

THE NATIONAL STRONG MOTION

NETWORK OF TURKEY

Ulubey Ceken ,Eren Tepeugur, Turgay Kuru,, Aytac Apak,

Derya Kokbudak, Vedat Ozsaraç, Selim Sezer and Cuneyt REPUBLIC OF TUKEY
PRIME MINISTRY
Sahin. DISASTER AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
PRESIDENCY
EARTHQUAKE DEPARTMENT
 HISTORY OF STRONG MOTION NETWORK

The National Strong Motion Network

of Turkey was established in 1973.

Once, all stations were analog as

the then-available technology.
After 1993, digital accelerometers
were added to the Network.

Today, thanks to the technology, SM Network in Turkey has been

data has been achieved real time operated by «The Republic of Turkey,
and high quality due to increasing Prime Ministry, Disaster Emergency
number of stations rapidly. Management Presidency, Earthquake
Department» .

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MAIN GOALS OF STRONG MOTION NETWORK

Strong ground motion observations, determine the forces led to damage

To provide basic data for earthquake zoning map, hazard and risk working

To provide data for engineering seismology and earthquake engineering

researches

To contribute for emergency management and early warning studies

To contribute for safe building and safe settlement working

Earthquake mitigation studies

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OVERVİEW
 The SM Network consist of 387 strong-motion observation stations with spacing
of 50 km.

 There are 5 different model digital accelerometers in the network.

400 387

350 323 QDR, 23,

300
SM-2, 13, 6%
300 271
4%
NUMBER OF STATION

235 GSR, 28,

250 7%
205
200 ETNA,
132 35, 9%
150 116

100 67

50
CMG-
0 5TD, 287,
1973 2000 2003 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 74%
YEARS

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OVERVİEW

The accelerometers
are generally
installed on the
North Anatolian
Fault System (NAFS),
East Anatolian Fault
System (EAFS) and
Aegean Graben
System where the
big earthquakes
occurred or the
expected active areas.

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LOCAL NETWORKS
Local networks are established with specific geometrical arrays on active fault
systems in order to observe seismic activity closely.

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LOCAL NETWORKS

An Example of local networks: IZMIR-NET established by the context of “Modelling

Of Seismic Site Response For Earthquake Resistant Structural Design in İzmir
Metropolitan Area and Aliağa-Menemen Districts” Project
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ACCELEROMETER STATIONS
The instruments are located in governmental buildings area owing to being
safety and ease of maintenance.

These instruments are installed in the containers as free fields.

While installing,

 Active tectonic lines,

Population of cities and the density of
building,
 Different geological structures,
 Energy lines,
 Communication,
 Security,
 Environmental noise,
 Transportation etc.

conditions are considered.

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Base-concrete of containers is
(220cmx220cmx30cm)

The middle-concrete that accelerometers

are mounted is (40cmx40cm x60cm)

Half of middle-concrete is on the ground

and the other half is under the ground.

There is 20cm space between base and the

middle- concrete. Space between them is
full of mixture of sand-grovel.

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SITE INVESTIGETIONS
The local site conditions of stations were obtained by in-situ geotechnical
and geophysical surveys.

VS30 measurements with MASW profile

Borehole (30m)
(100 m)

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The average of shear-wave velocity for upper 30m soil layer (VS30) is obtained
at the each strong-motion site thanks to multi-channel analysis of surface
waves (MASW), which is used for defining of soil classification.

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Concerned researcher can
provide « Station Information
Form» over the Internet
through this search engine .

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COMMUNICATION

 Data is transmited to the

central office as continuous or
trigger mode with
communication instruments
(Dial-up, Internet, ADSL,
GPRS/EDGE).

 Data is submitted to users

through main server after
process.

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TYPES of ACCELEROMETER
There are 5 digital different type of accelerometers in the network. All of
them have three component acceleration sensors .

QDR, modified from SMA-1, SMACH has 72 dB sensitivity and

has 12 bits resolution.
12 bits digital converter.
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TYPES of ACCELEROMETER

GSR type accelerometers ETNA type records have

have 16 and 18 bits digital 18 bits resolution.
converter.

CMG-5TD is an integrated DM-24 high resolution digitizer.

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DATA CENTER
The data management center is located in Ankara.

MAIN SERVER DATA CENTER

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DATA PROCESS
Windows-based software (USDP) was
developed during the project for the filter
Within the framework of the process (Akkar and Bommer, 2006) of
project entitled “Compilation of records in the database.
The National Strong Motion
Network Database According to
International Standart“, 3000
events and 4600 raw
accelerometric data (between
1976 and 2007) is prosessed
uniformly with a consistent
methodology through the
software called USDP (Utility
Elastic spectral parameters of all records was
Software for Data Processing) .
also determined for researchers by using
the same filter method.
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DATA FORMAT

It is possible to be reached to all

of accelerograms for researcher
since the establishment of
Turkish National Strong Motion
(1973).

An example of file names is

Date(yyyymmdd)+time(hhmmss
)+ abbreviation of the station

(1201)(ex.20030501002704_1201).
All data are ASCII format as seen figure.
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DATA FORMAT
 In the header information there are three components of acceleration
data like; N-S (North-South), E-W (East-West) and U-D (up-down).

Sample intervals for each records can be found beneath the header
"SAMPLE INTERVAL".

Set-off correction process is applied for untreated data . Unit of all

acceleration data is cm/sn2 (gal).

 Until now, There have been about 7600 acceleration records, which are
presented via Internet to all researchers and scientific areas.
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PROJECTS
Enhancement of the National Strong Motion Network and Establishing
Seismic Arrays in Turkey

(Nato Science For Peace Program – Sfp977484)

"BYTNet and DATNet"

Establishment of Local Strong Motion Seismic Array

(TUBITAK ICTAG-1578/YMAU )
"MATNet"

Establishment of Local Strong Motion Seismic Array

(Project Number: 040302)
"ANANet"

Compilation of The National Strong Motion Network Database According

to International Standart
(TUBITAK Project Number :105G016)

Modelling Of Seismic Site Response For Earthquake Resistant Structural

Design In İzmir Metropolitan Area And Aliağa-Menemen Districts
TUBITAK-KAMAG Project (No: 106G159)

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WEB PAGE
Web Page of our system is
http://kyh.deprem.gov.tr
Daily strong motion records,
Earthquake Reports ( M4), Station
Information and their maps are
always up to date.
If earthquake point on the map
is clicked, event page opens

User Interfaces

Detailed Special Reports are also

published after the destructive
earthquake occurred.
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WEB PAGE
Users can provide by using
search engine about the station
or earthquake information and
then they can download the
Raw Data.

Users can find

data from a
particular
station by
Users can going to the
download all station pages
data easly
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TARGETS
 At the beginning of 2013, it is aimed to have 450 stations in the network.
Furthermore, total station number will be 1000 until 2023.

 To increase the number of local or regional array,

 To implement shake and intensity maps,

 Strong-motion indexes such as real-time intensity, acceleration, velocity,

displacement, and response spectra are continuously and automatically to be
calculated to utilize for seismic hazard analysis

 To review processed accelerograms in order to produce data being uniform

and NGA standards

 To develop attenuation relationships at the regional and country scale,

 Local geology and Vs profile of all stations will be completed.

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Thank You ！

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