Compound Risk Modeling: Covid19 & Earthquakes in Turkey

On October 30, 2020, a significant earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 hit the Aegean coast, including the Greek island of Samos and Izmir, one of the biggest coastal cities in Turkey. Furthermore, the earthquake caused a small-scale tsunami and destroyed several buildings where people were trapped. While the search and rescue operations and temporary shelters and recovery actions have been going on, simultaneously, communities needed to comply with the COVID19 regulations of social distancing and/or isolation. The resilience against single stress or shock has been studied quite frequently in the literature, while the current situation raises the question of community response under compound shocks and stresses. This study will explore the resilience of socio-technical systems to increase the recovery performance of communities and disaster management organizations under multiple shocks (i.e., long-term pandemic, short-term earthquake).