Role of Causes in Physical Vulnerability of Jahrom City against Earthquake

In this research, first, errors in Jahrom city base map in Autocad format, was corrected to be used in GIS environment, then, different maps including city districts, proposed divisions, density and networks maps were prepared. Buffering and overlay methods were then used to create maps of faults and seismic points around Jahrom city. Exact distances of these points were extracted. After dividing city to 29 regions, necessary information with regards to existing standard indices of urban vulnerability including materials used and their strength and so on, were collected and input to a GIS. Using weighting, index overly methods, suitable outputs of Jahron urban physical vulnerability against earthquake were generated. With the use of these maps and information derived from them, necessary planning with respect to natural disaster mitigation (especially earthquake) could be possible.