Investigating the Risk of Earthquakes in the Roads of Mazandaran Province

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Fateme Dehghan Farouji 1
Ali Beitollahi 2
Negar Soodmand 3
1 Instructor, Housing & Urban Development Research Center, Tehran, Iran.
2 Assistant Professor, Housing & Urban Development Research Center, Tehran, Iran.
3 Ph.D., Student, Islamic Azad University, North Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran.
10.22034/road.2025.511696.2376
Abstract
Earthquakes, as a natural disaster, can damage transportation systems and disrupt or stop their operation, especially in urban areas. Failure to consider the seismic risks of the transportation network causes chaos and disorder in the areas where the disasters has occurred. These systems are considered elements of search and rescue operations after an earthquake. Therefore, if a detailed assessment and analysis of the risks that threaten it is not carried out, it can cause disruption in the transportation network and ultimately, a failure in other vital services in the affected areas. The roads of Mazandaran Province are located in a high-seismic risk area. Seismic indicators such as faults (fault density and distance from the fault), earthquakes (density of large, medium and small earthquakes) and the classification of earthquake risk in the roads of Mazandaran Province were investigated. Superposition of seismic indices on roads has shown that road axes located in the eastern province, such as Kiasar, Firouzkooh-Qaemshahr, and Neka Road, have higher risk than Chalus Road.
Keywords
Seismic hazard
Roads
Mazandaran Province
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