Abstract:
Turkey is located on active faults. For this reason many destructive earthquakes occurred
throughout history. In recent years, earthquakes which occurred March 8, 2010 Elazığ-
Kovancılar, June 23, 2011 Elazığ-Maden, September 23, 2011 Tabanlı-Van and November 9,
2011 Edremit-Van earthquakes caused human causalities and large damages with considerably
loss of properties in Turkey. Especially masonry buildings in the rural area were damaged
seriously due to these earthquakes. In this paper, the earthquake damages of masonry buildings
were presented and reasons of damages were investigated.