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For a country with the size and seismicity of Turkey, the number of strong motion recording instruments has been, and still remains, meager. The national accelerometric network dates its genesis to 1973, some 40 years after the first instruments had been deployed in California as the world’s first. The article traces the procurement and emplacement of the first batch of analog sensors from 1973, and the stages of technological and numerical improvements that have been achieved since.
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I thank O. Ergünay for factual information concerning the funding sources at GDDA.
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Gülkan, P. (2011). The Turkish National Accelerometric Network: 1973–2010. In: Akkar, S., Gülkan, P., van Eck, T. (eds) Earthquake Data in Engineering Seismology. Geotechnical, Geological, and Earthquake Engineering, vol 14. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0152-6_14
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