Letter to Editor

Authors

• Alireza Mashallahi ¹
• Milad Ahmadi Marzaleh ²
• Abbas Ostadtaghizadeh ³

¹ School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

² Student Research Committee, Department of Health in Disasters and Emergencies, Health Human Resources Research Center, School of Management and Medical Informatics, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran

³ Department of Disaster Public Health, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Ezgeleh is a city in Kermanshah province, in western Iran. According to the census 2016, the city population
was 1502 individuals. At 21:48 PM on the 12th of Novem- ber 2017, an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3-Richter
Scale struck the city at the depth of 11-kilometer. The epi- center was in Ezgeleh, a district of Salase-e-Babajani county
near the city of Sar-Pol-e-Zahab, both of which sustained the highest damage. 

Keywords

• Aid
• Altruism
• Celebrity
• Earthquakes
• Humanitarian
• Non-Governmental
• Organizations