Every community
must choose whether to invest in risk reduction action before the disaster strikes
or to wait and pay the consequences, which could include high costs of recovery
and reconstruction after the disaster strikes. Therefore, the implementation
strategies of risk reduction program should have three basic objectives: stop
increasing the risk for new construction, start decreasing the unacceptable
risk for existing structure and continue preparation for the consequences for
inevitable earthquake.
The regions in Palestine suffer, in general,
from planning absence, random urban expansion, and multiple land use, with lack
of seismic information about the area, and insufficiency of master plans that refers
to several considerations such as landslides fault, and plans that determines
the hypoactive seismic areas.
Studies of
historical earthquakes and instrumental earthquake records during the past
seventy year demonstration that the damaging earthquakes in Palestine were
located along the Dead Sea Rift/Transform fault. These damaging earthquakes
caused in several cases sever devastation and many hundreds and sometimes thousands
of fatal casualties. Recent studies of large destructive earthquakes have shown
that damages during the earthquakes are often caused by the amplification of
seismic waves in near surface geology.
The primary
research goal is to construct the theory of Urban Planning for Disaster Reduction
in Palestine. It is necessary that the planning contain both hardware and
software in order to raise the force of city for the disaster, also the ways of
reducing the impact of earthquakes we will be discussed, as Palestine lies on
active faults.