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However, commonly used assessment approaches are either time-consuming or rely on simplified linear models that fail to capture the complex relationship between seismic demand and building characteristics. This study proposes a safety-first ensemble data-driven screening framework for rapid post-earthquake building damage assessment, combining XGBoost, LightGBM, and CatBoost classifiers via soft voting. The framework is trained and tested using a large post-earthquake dataset from the Nurda\u011f\u0131 and Islahiye districts, obtained from the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change, which includes georeferenced building attributes and officially assigned damage states without secondary reinterpretation. Spatially varying seismic demand is represented using interpolated peak ground acceleration values for DD-1 and DD-2 hazard levels, while V\n                    <jats:sub>S30<\/jats:sub>\n                    parameters characterize local site conditions. 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