One of the issues that most of the cities of the world are facing with, is natural disasters
including earthquake that from time to time endangers the lives and property of a group of them
and considering the unpredictability nature of them and the necessity of making a quick and
correct decisions and implementation of the operations and the theoretical and fundamental
principles of it, a field of knowledge as crisis management has been created. This knowledge
refers to a set of actions which are performed before, during and after the emergency for
reducing the effects of these disasters and reducing their vulnerability. Considering the historical
seismicity status of Chahbahar town and according to the latest seismic hazard zonation map, the
city is located in the area of seismic risk and also due to the existence of urban decay of this city,
dealing with crisis management seem to be necessary. The present paper has been conducted
with the use of descriptive-analytical method and the collection method is documental and
bibliographical. With the use of Geographic Information System (GIS) the Earthquake-prone
areas, Fault Lines have been identified and the urban decay area in the city has been specified.
Also in this study the issues and problems related to crisis management and the required actions
have been studied and our aim is to put an emphasis on crisis management and the necessity of
the role of urban planners in reducing the vulnerability of the city against earthquake disasters
and taking correct executive, remedial and managerial actions for the improvement and
reconstruction of the urban decay of the city as well and studying and extending the standard
construction throughout the city.