Background: After the Kermanshah earthquake on November 12, 2017, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences dispatched a response team to the earthquake-stricken areas. This team provided the affected people with health services for 10 days. This article intends to examine the experience of this team in Kermanshah earthquake-stricken areas. Materials and Methods: After the team’s return from Kerma...

Bam Project started suddenly after the earthquake on December 26, 2003, that collapsed an important cultural heritage in south-east Iran, Citadel of Bam. This paper briefly summarizes our nearly eight years of effort for post-disaster reconstruction of Bam Citadel. The paper starts with the framework of the project that consists of architectural process and conceptual process and we discuss the...

Because of the availability of high-resolution satellite imagery, remote sensing data has become an attractive source of data for identifying post-earthquake damage. Recently, several semiautomated methods for earthquake damage detection have been developed. These methodologies fall into two general categories: change detection and thematic classification. In change detection, both preand post-...

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 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...

introduction: many of those who survive following an earthquake die in the next phase due to preventable and treatable medical conditions such as hyperkalemia. the present study aimed to evaluate the trend of potassium changes in crush syndrome patients of bam earthquake. methods: in this retrospective cross-sectional study, using the database of bam earthquake victims, which were developed by ...

On the 26 December 2003 an earthquake, that measured 6.6 on the Richter scale, struck the town of Bam in Southern Iran. The European Space Agency (ESA) through its orbiting ENVISAT ASAR sensor managed to acquire 3 ascending and 3 descending image sets of the earthquake area, which were distributed, on request, free of charge to the research community world wide. A radar line-of-sight displaceme...