Background: One of the important tasks of medical centers is to provide emergency services to the injured during an earthquake. Therefore, these medical centers always should be prepared to deal with such circumstances. Non-structural elements are the important components of medical centers that should be considered. In this study, qualitative and quantitative performance of equipment and non- structural vulnerability of seven public hospitals in Tehran city have been evaluated during an earthquake.
Methods: In this cross-sectional research, all public hospitals in Tehran city were studied including governmental or public, private, military and also social security. Using WHO / PAHO Standard Checklist, seven public hospitals were selected and evaluated by convenience sampling method in eleven sections.
Findings: According to the results, the lowest functional level was observed in emergency exit systems, communication systems, furniture and equipment. The studied hospitals were at a satisfactory level in heating and cooling systems, ventilation systems of care units, fire detection and extinguisher. Although 56% of the mentioned hospitals were at a satisfactory level in overall assessment of performance in non-structural features, the critical, vital and effective sections of the hospitals were functioning at an average and some in even low levels of safety.
Conclusion: Totally, the hospitals lacked a proper preparation in disaster in non-structural evaluation; furthermore, there was a standard instruction in non-structural immunization that hospitals should consider in preparation.

Background: In the case of occurring earthquake, education centers are classified into high vulnerable places because of existing high number of students, teachers and workers. These centers can be used as an emergency shelter after earthquake too. This study has been performed in one of neighborhoods in west of Tehran in order to evaluating the seismic structural vulnerability of education centers and choosing safe buildings for emergency shelters in earthquake.
Methods: In this applied research study, RVS and GIS were used in four steps in order to evaluate the structural resistance of educational centers and distribution of secure training centers for emergency shelter in times of crisis respectively. Data was collected and analyzed by using SWOT.
Findings: Despite being this neighborhood in the low-risk area of Tehran, low structural resistance of many educational centers, lack of design regulars and criteria make these centers vulnerable to disasters; therefore, some solutions must be found. Moreover, distribution of safe educational centers is necessary as the emergency shelters. SWOT analysis shows that the strategy situation is contingency.
Conclusion: With regard to the importance of educational centers, the vulnerability and functional assessment before earthquake are necessary. Recommended strategies for reducing vulnerability have been classified into two static and dynamic groups

Introduction: Throughout history, humans have always been faced earthquakes as a natural disaster and incurred physical, social, economic and environmental harm. The best way to deal with this threat is being ready; one of the basic strategies is to have knowledge about the degree of vulnerability of the city against earthquake.
Method: Different criteria are involved in modeling of the vulnerability of the city most of them are of the nature of the place; so, modeling of the vulnerability is a multi-criteria evaluation of the place. In this study, 11 criteria were extracted via reviewing previous researches and consulting the experts. Then, the modeling was done for Babol city, Iran, using fuzzy logic model and weighted linear combination method under conditions of uncertainty.
Findings: Modeling in Babol city showed that 10%, 24%, 27%, 28% and 11% of the buildings were in the condition of very low, low, medium, high, and very high vulnerability.
Conclusion: Babol city can be considered as vulnerable to earthquake as nearly 70% of the buildings were labeled “medium” to “high” vulnerable. Hence, basic interventions for crisis management should be taken on the agenda of the relevant officials before an earthquake occurs.