This current article focuses on “relation between human groups and natural disasters. Although natural disasters have caused considerable damages to the human world, but there is not enough research about the family in disasters. Family sociologists believe that changes in population, technology, modernity, politics, and mass media are effect on transforming structures, relationships, and behav...

background: after each natural disaster a comprehensive treatment protocol is needed for volunteers of healthcare personnel of the disaster zone. the aim of this study was to emphasize the psychological aspects of coping strategies, personality, psychological distress and pain of patients survived the bam earthquake.   methods: eighty-six patients who had suffered several kinds of psycho-cognit...

This paper presents the results of research carried out to improve emergency response activities in earthquake-prone areas of Iran. The research concentrated on emergency response operations, emergency medical care, emergency transportation, and evacuation-the most important issues after an earthquake with regard to saving the lives of victims. For each topic, some guidelines and criteria are p...

Earthquake is one of the most destructive natural phenomena which has human and financial losses. The existence of an efficient prediction system and early warning system will be useful for reducing effects of destroying earthquake. In this research, the soil temperature time-series data, obtained from three meteorological station, using three filters (Fourier, Wavelet and Logarithmic Different...

S U M M A R Y Slip-rate function and the rupture velocity are two important parameters that are critical in understanding the physics of earthquakes. When conventional objective functions are used, the slip-rate function is not well resolved from seismic data. Here, we propose a new method to obtain the slip-rate function by utilizing the near-field phases recorded near the fault rupture. First...

Background: After each natural disaster a comprehensive treatment protocol is needed for volunteers of healthcare personnel of the disaster zone. The aim of this study was to emphasize the psychological aspects of coping strategies, personality, psychological distress and pain of patients survived the Bam earthquake. Methods: Eighty-six patients who had suffered several kinds of psycho-cognitiv...

Natural disasters in various forms have been identified as destructive phenomena during the life of earth planet and are also a serious threat to the inhabitants of the planet. Therefore, this issue leaded to the formation of a process called crisis management which includes activities occurring before, within and after the event to reduce the vulnerability. The country of Iran is considered as...

In resent years, remote sensing technologies are utilized in disaster management as a means of information gathering in a large scale disaster. QuickBird captured a clear image of Bam City, eight days after the 2003 Bam, Iran, earthquake. The city was also observed by QuickBird about three months before the event. In this paper, we perform building damage detection based on land cover classific...