GNGTS 2017 - 36° Convegno Nazionale

82 GNGTS 2017 S essione 1.1 Rome but not as frequently as one could imagine. Apreliminary search revealed the existence of some folders dedicated to the earthquake, which are to be investigated in detail. Some archives in Rome, mostly military ones, contain correspondences with Rhodes. A map reporting the damage distribution in the capital is to be found at the local archive of Kos. In Turkey, we have the correspondence of the local governors with the Ministry of Internal Affairs on the effects of the events and the associated relief measures (source: archives of Earthquake Department of Prime Ministry Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency – AFAD). It reports damage from a number of villages, including slight damage in Bodrum and rockfalls in the nearby mountains. It recalls that the area of Datça (old name Dadya) was shaken by a previous earthquake on August 9, 1932, Mw 5.4. Newspapers. Greece. Newspapers in Greece (among them “Akropolis”, “Ethnos”, “Estia”) as well as the local Dodecanese report extensively on the earthquake. Most of them mainly focus on the large death toll, the medical care of the injured and the ruined town. The main issue in Greece concerned the management of this crisis by the Italian administration. Newpapers reporting earthquake news come from the areas of Athens, Piraeus, Samos, Chios, Drama, Thessaloniki, Heraklion and Rhodes, starting fromApril 25, 1933. As for the Kos island, besides the damage in Kos city, the villages Antimacheia and Asfendiou were completely destroyed, while Kardamaina and Kermetes were severely damaged. Sevaral houses in Pyli, Kefalos, Asomato and Lagoudi were destroyed. Nisyros also suffered by the earthquake. serious extended damage. Hundreds of houses collapsed or became uninhabitable: 138 houses destroyed, others suffered negligible damage. Rockfalls were reported from the volcano of the island. Italy. Some information is found in “Corriere della Sera” and “La Stampa”, although not very useful for our purposes. Il “Messaggero di Rodi” supplies more detailed information, although mostly referring to the city of Kos. Turkey. Earthquake news are found in the “Cumhuriyet” newspaper. The issue of April 26, 1933 gives information with percentage of damaged buildings for a number of villages on the coastal area (Karaköy, Kızlan, Hızırşah, Emecik, Eşme and Yaka. Yazı was half demolished; Cumalı village was half collapsed and half badly damaged. In Bodrum the walls of two mosques, one military building, two huts, one coffeehouse and 14 houses were cracked. Some chimneys and roofs fell down. The earthquake was strongly felt in Muğla. Macroseismic data. The “Bollettino Sismico of the Regio Ufficio di Meteorologia e Geofisica”, section “Macrosismi”, had a subsection devoted to the “Italian Colonies”. While for the 1926 earthquake it supplies some information, including how that earthquake was felt in Italy, for the 1933 we have just one line “Coo, Egeo, intensity IX). Preliminary results and conclusion. The so far available data allow to assess macroseismic intensity to at least 30 localities, fromwhich location andMw can be computed. The investigation of the material contained in the main repositories is still in progress. Acknowledgments The material from AFAD archives has been kindly compiled and provided to us by MSc. Geological Engineer Mr. Cenk Erkmen. We are grateful for his contribution. References AFAD (2017) Preliminary report on the 21.7.2017 Muğla erthquake, Prime Ministry Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency, in Turkish. Ambraseys N.N. (2001) Reassessment of earthquakes, 1900–1999, in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East, Geophysical Journal International, 145/2: 471-485. Grünthal, G., Wahlström, R., Stromeyer, D.  (2013): The SHARE European Earthquake Catalogue (SHEEC) for the time period 1900-2006 and its comparison to European-Mediterranean Earthquake Catalogue (EMEC). Journal of Seismology 17(4): 1339-1344 https://www.emidius.eu/SHEEC/ Guidoboni E, Comastri A, 2005. Catalogue of earthquakes and tsunamis in the Mediterranean area from the 11th to the 15th century. INGV-SGA, Bologna Kadirioglu, F.T., Kartal, R.F., Kılıc¸ T., Kalafat, D., Duman, T.Y., Azak, T.E., Ozalp, S., Emre, O. (2016) An improved earthquake catalogue (M≥4.0) for Turkey and its near vicinity. Bull Earthq Eng DOI 10.1007/s10518-016-0064-8.