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Head
of Tehran City Council Rahmatollah Khosravi said on Tuesday
that the city council pursues the strategy of reinforcing
Tehran's resistance to possible earthquake that may hit
the city.
Inaugurating
a nationwide `Preparatory Program for Elementary and Secondary
Schools to Reduce the Damages from Quake', he said that
Tehran is under threat of a quake and the City Council has
called for proper planning to deal with possible quake.
He said that public training is one of the methods to reduce
the damages caused by quake and that reinforcement of the
buildings is another way to deal with the threat. He called
on the association of civil engineers to seriously take
into account the standards criteria in construction of new
buildings which should be quake-resistant.
The
International Research Center on Earthquake sponsored the
nationwide program in cooperation with the Ministry of Education,
the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) and the Committee
in charge of Reducing Losses of Natural Disasters.
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