Disaster Epidemiology Lessons From Bam Earthquake Dec 26, 2003 Iran

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Disaster Epidemiology Lessons
From Bam Earthquake
Dec 26, 2003 Iran Part 3
The nature and main impacts of Bam earthquake
A. Ardalan MD, MPH, PhD student in Epidemiology
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• Learning objectives
• To understand the nature of
• Bam earthquake
• To understand the main
• impacts of Bam earthquake

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• The main impacts of
• Bam earthquake
• Although the impact of the
• earthquake seems to be limited to a
• relatively small area of about 16 km
• in radius, the 2,500 years old
• historic city of Bam was almost
• completely destroyed.

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The Citadel of Bam which was once built up to
save the lives of people, could not even save
itself.
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• The main impacts
• of Bam earthquake
• Number of killed 40,000
• Number of injured 30,000
• Number of hospitalized 12,000

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• The main impacts of Bam earthquake
• Human resource tragedy
• Death or miss of substantial
• number of local civil servants
• from professional and managerial
• cadres
• Nearly 50 of the local health
• staff dead or missed.

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• The main
• impacts
• of Bam
• earthquake
• Number of houses destroyed
• beyond repair 25,000 (85 )
• Number of homeless people 75,000

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The main impacts of Bam earthquake Number of
health facilities destroyed (nearly
100) District Hospitals 3
Health Houses 95 Urban Health Centers
10 Rural
Health Centers 14
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Imam Hospital of Bam, After the Earthquake
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The main impacts of Bam earthquake
All-major
public buildings, including the district
governors office have been partially or
completely damaged.
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• The main impacts of Bam earthquake
• Electricity and water supply in
• the city were also severely affected.

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• The main impacts of Bam earthquake
• Number of schools destroyed
• or unusable 131 (100)

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You might have asked yourself, how
come, that such moderate earthquake, can cause
such vast devastation. Please follow the lecture.
We will find out together!
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