Earthquake Report to be Obtained with Free Screening Test in İzmir

The earthquakes in Kahramanmaraş, which occurred on February 6 and cost the lives of more than 40 thousand citizens, have spread across the country. a belated awareness seems to have made it. Because, especially in metropolitan cities, the eyes of both administrators and citizens were opened. People know what will happen to their buildings in a possible earthquake. they started to wonder. Local governments have also decided to expand the work to be done at this point.

In this context, in a news we shared with you recently, The Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality‘s take a step to prevent disaster in a possible earthquake we talked about. Within the scope of a project initiated, the citizen would be able to have free tests to determine whether the building he lived in was sound or not. Now a similar move, one of the cities with the most earthquakes in Turkey, IzmirIt came from

Every citizen living in Izmir will be able to have their building checked free of charge.

How impossible to forget! On October 30, 2020, an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 occurred off the Aegean Sea, buildings were destroyed all over İzmir, and more than 100 of our citizens lost their lives. After the earthquakes in Kahramanmaraş, “İzmir Disaster Plan-Earthquake Preparedness and Resilience Studies” Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Tunç Soyer, who made statements within the scope of the ” events, stated that they started a new application and that a citizen living anywhere in by applying for freeannounced that the building he lived in could be tested whether it is earthquake resistant or not.

Tunç Soyer’s statement on the subject was as follows: Until today, we, as Izmir Metropolitan Municipality, have been making building inventories at the scale of districts. After that, Izmir no matter what county We are starting to provide free support to every citizen who applies to get the earthquake report of their buildings. Every Izmirian by applying to our municipality can benefit from the fast scanning service related to the earthquake.

How will applications be made?

The answer to this question is not clear for now. Applications must be submitted to Izmir Metropolitan Municipality. will it be done in person? or will a special web page be created for this and a demand will be collected from there? Unknown. However, it is expected that new explanations will be made in a few days for the free quick scan test and how the process will be done.

According to the Izmir Disaster Plan published by the Izmir Metropolitan Municipality from here you can reach.