IRAN, AS A LAND OF EARTHQUAKE

Nowadays the developed communities, having taken necessary measures, have succeeded in overcoming earthquake, and so they did not call it hazard anymore. However, in Iran, earthquake still continues to be one of the dangerous hazards which leaves a lot of human and financial losses. The findings of this research show that two important factors can be effective in causing such damages: (a) Natural factors or specific geographical platforms in Iran, including Iran's position in the Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt; there is a lot of faults, and there are the plates movement within the in the Iran's plateau, and the earthquakes in Iran are in low focal depth. (b) Human factors such as the establishment of most of the settlements near or on the fault, the fatalist view of the view of risk, structural and unstructured factors, and crisis management in managing crisis.