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Earthquake in Western Iran: Renovation Kills

Introduction: Earthquake is the most important cause of death from natural disasters in Iran. This paper brings attention to the main causes of loss of life due to the Kermanshah province earthquake (Nov 12 2017), and provides a wakeup call about the unsafe nature of buildings there. Methods: This s...

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Autores principales: Ostadtaghizadeh, Abbas, Khaleghy Rad, Mona, Aghababaeian, Hamidreza, Zare, Mehdi, Kamranzad, Farnaz
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6117122/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30214829
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/currents.dis.ac10620db4a0c944e605c4c226a75f64
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author Ostadtaghizadeh, Abbas
Khaleghy Rad, Mona
Aghababaeian, Hamidreza
Zare, Mehdi
Kamranzad, Farnaz
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description Introduction: Earthquake is the most important cause of death from natural disasters in Iran. This paper brings attention to the main causes of loss of life due to the Kermanshah province earthquake (Nov 12 2017), and provides a wakeup call about the unsafe nature of buildings there. Methods: This study is based on official reports review and a field assessment in the areas affected by the earthquake in western Iran. Results: Although buildings in this area are mainly old structures, strangely, more than 70% of the destroyed buildings in this earthquake were under 5 years of age, newly built or renovated buildings according to mandated building codes. Discussion: Mandated building codes and construction rules and regulations are not respected even for the newly constructed or reconstructed structures buildings. Keywords: Earthquake, Iran, construct, reconstruct, Building codes
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spelling pubmed-61171222018-09-12 Earthquake in Western Iran: Renovation Kills Ostadtaghizadeh, Abbas Khaleghy Rad, Mona Aghababaeian, Hamidreza Zare, Mehdi Kamranzad, Farnaz PLoS Curr Research Article Introduction: Earthquake is the most important cause of death from natural disasters in Iran. This paper brings attention to the main causes of loss of life due to the Kermanshah province earthquake (Nov 12 2017), and provides a wakeup call about the unsafe nature of buildings there. Methods: This study is based on official reports review and a field assessment in the areas affected by the earthquake in western Iran. Results: Although buildings in this area are mainly old structures, strangely, more than 70% of the destroyed buildings in this earthquake were under 5 years of age, newly built or renovated buildings according to mandated building codes. Discussion: Mandated building codes and construction rules and regulations are not respected even for the newly constructed or reconstructed structures buildings. Keywords: Earthquake, Iran, construct, reconstruct, Building codes Public Library of Science 2018-08-16 /pmc/articles/PMC6117122/ /pubmed/30214829 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/currents.dis.ac10620db4a0c944e605c4c226a75f64 Text en © 2018 Ostadtaghizadeh, Khaleghy Rad, Aghababaeian, Zare, Kamranzad, et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Earthquake in Western Iran: Renovation Kills
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6117122/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30214829
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/currents.dis.ac10620db4a0c944e605c4c226a75f64
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