U.S. Geological Survey’s Hazard & Impact Assessment of the 2023 Türkiye Earthquake Sequence

A multi-disciplinary special session on the 2023 Turkey/Syria Earthquake Sequence was held at the 2023 EERI Annual Meeting on Tuesday, April 11, 2023 in San Francisco, CA. The session included presentations from members of reconnaissance teams recently returned from the field and other experts that provided overview of impacts from the February 6, 2023 Kahramanmaraş Earthquake Sequence. In this presentation, Kishor Jaiswal and David Wald, USGS, present a synopsis of rapid characterization of hazard and impacts from the M7.8 Kahramanmaras earthquake sequence using USGS ShakeMap and PAGER, ELER, and OpenQuake capabilities.