Seismic isolation devices prevent damage in four hospitals

Four hospitals, where seismic isolation devices were used during the construction, were not damaged at all during the devastating earthquakes in southern Türkiye.

In both deadly quakes, Elbistan State Hospital in the epicenter district of the second major quake, Hatay Dörtyol State Hospital, Malatya Battalgazi State Hospital and Maternity and Children’s Hospital in Malatya did not suffer even the slightest damage thanks to the seismic isolation devices placed in their columns and became a shelter for quake victims.

Seismic isolation devices placed in the column or base of buildings absorb the power of the shocks from earthquakes of magnitude 5 and above while providing the ability to cut the contact between the earthquake and the structure.

Some state hospitals in Osmaniye, Adıyaman and Kahramanmaraş, whose constructions are about to be completed, were not damaged thanks to the system that protects the buildings by reducing the severity of the tremor by five times.

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