The Effects of Marmara earthquake lon 17th of August 1999 on the economy of Sakarya province

SUMMARY This study investigates the works that have done in order to lower the affects of the earthquake happened on the 17th of the August in 1999 over Adapazarı and how much these works have costed according to official documants. Moreover, this study compares the needs of the health and education, the vital needs that are necessary for the continuity of the life and the dimensions of the life with the damage made by the earthquake using numerical values. It points out how great the loss of property and life is, the economic loss of the town statistically over all fields, (the industry of the town and of the province Sakarya, the decrease in the commercial life, the damages in the infrastructure and its approximate consequences etc.), and the financial need which is necessary to rectify all these. It declares new ideas about which precautions would be taken about the earthquake and moving the regions of settlement to a much safer and healthier place in a time period by defining the needs and the problems of city administration after earthquake reports. XI