Journal of Natural Disaster Science

PRELIMINARY REPORT OF THE DAMAGE DUE TO THE QAYEN EARTHQUAKE OF 1997, NORTHEAST IRAN

Motohiko HAKUNO
Toyo University
Toshifumi IMAIZUMI
Yamanashi University
Hiroshi KAGAMI
Hokkaido University
Junji KIYONO
Kyoto University
Yasutaka IKEDA, Ikuo TOWHATA, Hiroshi SATO, Muneo HORI, Kimiro MEGURO
University of Tokyo
Khosrow TOUTOUNCHI SHABESTARI, Reza ALAGHEBANDIAN
Graduate Students, University of Tokyo
and
Hitoshi TANIGUCHI, Hirokazu TSUJIBATA
United Nations Center for Regional Development

(Received 7 November, 1997 and in revised form 15 April, 1998)

Abstract

On 10 May 1997, a large earthquake (Ms=7.1) rocked the northeastern part of Iran (N33.7 degr., E59.7 degr., h=27 km) damaging about 150 villages and killing l,448 people. The Japanese Group for the Study of Natural Disaster Science with financial support from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture (Monbusho) sent a reconnaissance team to the site. The team investigated the 110-km long surface fault, 57 damaged villages, the damage done to lifelines, and public risk management in cooperation with its Iranian counterparts, in particular the International Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology (IIEES).

Key words

earthquake damage, active fault, Sistan collision zone, site effect on ground motion, adobe, risk management