ZeminPuan

ZeminPuan is a non-profit public-awareness platform that translates Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality's (İBB) 'Earthquake Potential Loss Estimations Booklet' (June 2020) into an interactive neighborhood-level risk map. Covering 39 districts and ~971 neighborhoods, the platform visualizes building damage distribution, estimated casualties, temporary shelter needs, soil class (NEHRP) and Vs30 values for a 7.5 Mw Marmara earthquake scenario.

İBB's loss estimation reports exist as hundreds of pages of static PDF tables — inaccessible to the average citizen who simply wants to understand the risk of their own neighborhood. Raw numbers like casualty counts, building damage ratios, soil class and Vs30 values are meaningless without context. The challenge was to turn dense seismic data into a 10-second answer: 'How risky is my neighborhood, and what does that actually mean for me and my building?'

ZeminPuan turns a 100+ page municipal report into a 10-second neighborhood lookup. Users can search by neighborhood or district, click on the map, and instantly see how a 7.5 Mw Marmara scenario would affect their street — along with a clear disclaimer that a good building on bad soil can still be safer than a bad building on good soil. The platform is carrying earthquake-preparedness messaging into conversations it would never have reached as a PDF.