ANALYSIS OF PHYSICAL RESILIENCE OF RURAL SETTLEMENTS IN ROUDBAR COUNTY AGAINST EARTHQUAKES

The occurrence of an earthquake in a region can affect many human activities and leave irreparable negative consequences on society, economy and human health. Earthquake is one of the Hazards that endanger the rural settlements of Roudbar county. The experience of the 1990 earthquake showed that the lack of standard housing in the villages of this region can cause a great disaster. Although 32 years have passed since this natural disaster, it seems that there has been enough opportunity to create standard housing and now is the time to evaluate the current situation. In this research, the level of physical resilience of settlements in 151 villages of Roudbar county against earthquakes was investigated using the hierarchical analysis method. In this work, 12 criteria and 36 sub-criteria were used. The results obtained from the AHP method showed that 0.66, 13.24, 59.61, 26.49 and zero percent of the villages have very low, low, medium, high and very high resilience, respectively. In this regard, resilience using WS method was equal to 3.32, 33.77, 55.64, 7.27 and zero percent. Therefore, about 73.51 and 92.73 percent of the villages have moderate to low resilience according to the two methods of hierarchical analysis and weighted summation. In addition, most of the villages with medium to low resilience are located in the mountainous and foothill areas of Roudbar county. In general, it should be said that the physical resilience of the rural settlements of this city is not suitable.