this paper presents the seismicity and seismotectonic characteristics of esfahan and adjoining regions, an area bounded between 49.5-54o e and 31-34.1o n. according to mirzaei et al. (1998) this region is placed between two major seismotectonic provinces: zagros and central-east iran. the boundary between these two provinces is known to be the main zagros reverse fault. geological maps with sca...

on 26 december 2003 at 05:26lt (01:26gmt), a catastrophic earthquake mw 6.6, seismic moment (6 – 9 ×10 nm) struck the city of bam in the kerman province of southeast iran. the intense shaking in the city caused the complete collapse of nearly every building in the central parts of the city including many of the newer buildings, killing about 40000 people officially. the city lies to the east of...

Pioneering work by Nicolas Ambraseys and many collaborators demonstrates both the tremendous value of macroseismic data and the perils of its uncritical assessment. In numerous publications he shows that neglect of original sources and/or failure to appreciate the context of historical accounts, as well as use of unreliable indicators such as landsliding to determine intensities, commonly leads...

historical earthquakes play a notable role in engineering seismology. the historical kashan-sialk region, 3 km south of kashan, was surveyed in the viewpoint of historical earthquakes events. several devastating historical earthquakes, occurred in the bc time, identified based on archaeological studies and evidences gathered from field study. in this respect a variety of information, namely tim...