A Study on Vulnerability of Some Important Earthquakes All around the World in the Past Ten Years (2003-2012)

Earthquakes in the world cause many human and financial damages.In this paper has tried to survey the behavior of organizations and local governments in important past ten years earthquakes all around the world and also from the point of view of disaster management and earthquake damages. This review study is based on the reports of different organizaitions and institutes after 26 December 2003 Bam, 12 January 2010 Haiti, 27 February 2010 Chile, 11 March 2011 Japan and Turkey 23 October 2011 earthquakes. After the study of these earthquakes, it was observed that Japan because of preparedness and correct management deal with the earthquake in the best way and in Haiti lack of preparation and inability of government from situation control, earthquake was turned into a major crisis. In Chile, disaster relatively to its highly magnitude was controlled appropriately. In Bam earthquake if pre-disaster measures had taken place, injuries would reduce.In Turkey, disasater was relatively well controlled. These earthquakes show the importance of take necessary measures before occurance of earthquake or other disasters which can lead to considerable reductions in the number of victim and since the earthquake did not only lead to human and financial damages, and most of the time leads to other disasters, it is necessary to take essential measures before disaster seriously in order to reduce earthquake damages. Also do planning for during and post disaster measures.