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AYŞE NUR ASALY AND F. SIBEL SALMAN
Ten scenarios with different sets of blocked roads are generated by
referring to the latest earthquake risk map of Istanbul reported by the
Japan International Cooperation Agency and Istanbul Metropolitan
Municipality in a 2002 study (e Japan International Cooperation
Agency [JICA]; Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality 2002). We clas-
sified the roads into three based on the earthquake risk map: high-risk
roads (see Table 8.3 for high-risk roads), low-risk roads (see Table 8.4 for
low-risk roads), and the remaining ones. More roads are picked to be
blocked in high-risk area than in low-risk area, but within eac ...