Seismic Microzonation Study in Tabriz Metropolitan City for Earthquake Risk Mitigation x

Azerbaijan is the site of convergent plate collisions along the Alpine-Himalayan active mountain belt. Brittle\ud faults in the Azerbaijan area are mostly Cenozoic in or younger. The data presented demonstrate clearly that\ud geological structures are commonly repeated at all scales from outcrop to regional. Several regional earthquakes\ud have been strongly felt and caused damages in and around Tabriz during history. Urban seismic risk is\ud increasing with population growth and encroachment of vulnerable built in environment into areas susceptible\ud seismic hazard. Seismic -hazard assessment an estimate of ground motion at the site of interest, taking into\ud account instrumental and historical earthquake records, information on tectonics, geology, and\ud attenuation characteristics of seismic waves Tabriz is important industrial city of Iran. It has a very high\ud population density about 2.000000 people in area just 90 km2\ud . The main objective of the Tabriz seismic\ud instrumentation and microzonation study was to carry out and propose new building in Tabriz and suburbs in\ud order to apply these criteria its development programs and determine the potential for damage to\ud existing constructions during earthquake motions, and finally earthquake risk mitigation assessment