TAG Motorway and Hatay Airport Earthquake Analysis

Immediately after the 6 February 2023 earthquakes, we conducted extensive field studies with Hakan ASLAN, Recep Bilal SIKAR and İbrahim Can TURAN within the scope of TÜBİTAK 1002-C Natural Disasters Focused Field Study Emergency Support Programme. As a result of these studies, our research on the earthquake performance of transport infrastructures with GNSS-based deformation analysis and GIS-supported evaluations was completed. Our academic article titled ‘Impact and GNSS-based deformation analysis of the earthquake in Turkey on 6 February, 2023: a case study of the TAG (Tarsus-Adana-Gaziantep) motorway and Hatay airport’ was published in Frontiers in Built Environment.

We hope that the article will contribute to policy makers, engineering professionals and academic circles while drawing attention to the importance of the continuity of transport infrastructures in rapid response processes after disasters.

To access the full article: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/built-environment/articles/10.3389/fbuil.2025.1572885/full