**7. Conclusions**

This chapter mainly focuses on urban damage assessment using data acquired from a real-time ground motion network during a recent moderate offshore event, the Silivri earthquake (*Mw* 5.8), which struck the Istanbul metropolitan area. Earthquake early warning and rapid response systems in İstanbul are introduced as one of the most sophisticated measures to mitigate seismic risk in the world. This highlights the significance of such systems' beneficial effects in earthquake-prone regions. The major findings of this paper are listed in two aspects as follows:

*Urban damage assessment after a moderate earthquake event:*


*Urban Damage Assessment after the* Mw *5.8 Silivri Earthquake: The Case of Istanbul City DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.109758*

