S FOR INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE DEMOGRAPHY OF DISASTERS: IMPLICATIONS FOR FUTURE POLICY ON DEVELOPMENT AND RESILIENCE Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi and Meimanat Hosseini-Chavoshi Title: Demographic Consequences of the 2003 Bam Earthquake in Iran Iran is a seismically active country crossed by several major fault lines resulting in frequent and often destructive earthquakes. This paper aim...

We demonstrate that interferometric observations of the Mw6.6 Bam (Iran) earthquake on December 26, 2003 acquired by Envisat-ASAR can not only map surface displacements and constrain fault models, but can also be used for damage mapping using the coherence magnitude. The Bam earthquake was the deadliest earthquake in 2003. An estimated 30000 people were killed and 85% of the buildings in the ar...

BACKGROUND Bam earthquake was the most catastrophic natural disasters in recent years. The aim of this study was to review different aspects of crisis management during and after the catastrophic earthquake in Bam City, Iran. METHODS Data needed for this systematic review were collected through searching PubMed, EMBASE and SID databases, for the period from 2003 to 2011. Keywords included ear...

BACKGROUND An earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale struck the city of Bam in Iran on the 26th of December 2003 at 5.26 A.M. It was devastating, and left over 40,000 dead and around 30,000 injured. The profound tragedy of thousands killed has caused emotional and psychological trauma for tens of thousands of people who have survived. A study was carried out to assess psychological distr...

BACKGROUND Critical analysis of shortcomings of emergency medical management of earthquake casualties will provide an invaluable insight to improve outcomes for future events. Using a critical analysis methodology to evaluate the quality of emergency medical management after Bam earthquake, we suggest a practical strategic approach to decrease morbidity and mortality after such events. METHOD...

Car accidents and gun-shot injuries are the most common causes of spinal cord injury. Five percent of those patients who have a complete spinal cord injury will experience improvement, to some extent. The lack of specific data in the literature regarding the outcome of earthquake related spinal cord injury justified us to design this study where we evaluated the neurological outcome and related...

This paper gives a brief explanation of the earthquake in Bam. It also reports on the rescue and relief operations, including the construction of emergency shelters and temporary housing, and on the country’s plan for the reconstruction of the city, which includes debris removal, the rebuilding of rural and urban residential and commercial units, the reconstruction of state and public buildings...

an earthquake with magnitude ms = 6.5 on the richter scale occurred in december 26th, 2003 in bam region in southeastern part of iran. this study investigates the chemical variations of the groundwater resources in the effected region. for this purpose, 30 wells were selected and chemical compounds, in terms of cations (ca+2, mg+2, na+, k+); anions (hco3, so4, cl, no2), as well as ec, tds and p...

[1] The Mw 6.6, 26 December 2003 Bam (Iran) earthquake was one of the first earthquakes for which Envisat advanced synthetic aperture radar (ASAR) data were available. Using interferograms and azimuth offsets from ascending and descending tracks, we construct a three-dimensional displacement field of the deformation due to the earthquake. Elastic dislocation modeling shows that the observed def...

AIM Bam earthquake and its profound tragedy of thousands killed has caused emotional and psychological trauma for tens of thousands of people who have survived. This study aimed to investigate general health of parents who lose their children in Bam earthquake 10 years after the earthquake. METHOD General health of 166 parents who lost their children in Bam earthquake was assessed using a tra...