The Vulnerability Assessment of Urban Housing in Earthquake against (A Case Study: 9th district of Tehran municipality)

Extended abstract 1Introduction Tectonic features of the Iran, has raised the earthquake as one of the most destructive causes of destruction of human life. Historical review shows that large areas of Iran have been suffered by natural disasters and caused heavy human and financial loss. Because of this important issue it is needed to reduce earthquake vulnerability. The city of Tehran as one of the largest and most important cities, due to the geographic location of this city on several active faults and historical records of these faults activities can be said to face a massive earthquake in near future, so the 9th district of Tehran municipality, is selected as the study area. In this research TOPSIS Fuzzy model is used to assess and analyze vulnerabilities in the study area, considering different earthquake intensities.