Earthquake Damage Analysis of Residential Buildings in District 2 of Tehran with Emphasis on Tehran Northern Faults

Disregarding the most basic safety construction in cities, inappropriate condition of most urban constructions and lack of planning for these constructions forecast heavy damages resulting from any incidents in future. The present study investigated and estimated the amount of damages to residential buildings in the occurrence of earthquakes within district 2 of Tehran municipality. Type of this research is applied-fundamental and its method is descriptive analytical. The studied area is the district 2 of Tehran municipality. In this research, statistical data on residential buildings and spatial data of northern fault in the north of Tehran were collected and this data has been used as basic information of Geographical Information System. Residential buildings in north of district 2 of Tehran will suffer the most damages in case of earthquake occurrence. Because of old and worn out buildings in south and west parts of district 2, even the distance differences between the threatening northern faults will not reduce the amount of damages on residential buildings.Type of Paper: Research article