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The Iran-Iraq earthquake occurred in Kermanshah Province, Iran in November 2017. It was a 7.4-magnitude seismic event that caused immense damages and loss of life. The rapid detection of damages caused by earthquakes is of great importance for disaster management. Thanks to their wide coverage, high resolution, and low cost, remote-sensing images play an important role in environmental monitoring. This study presents a new damage detection method at the unsupervised level, using multitemporal optical and radar images acquired through Sentinel imagery. The proposed method is applied in two main phases: (1) automatic built-up extraction using spectral indices and active learning framework on Sentinel-2 imagery; (2) damage detection based on the multitemporal coherence map clustering and similarity measure analysis using Sentinel-1 imagery. The main advantage of the proposed method is that it is an unsupervised method with simple usage, a low computing burden, and using medium spatial resolution imagery that has good temporal resolution and is operative at any time and in any atmospheric conditions, with high accuracy for detecting deformations in buildings. The accuracy analysis of the proposed method found it visually and numerically comparable to other state-of-the-art methods for built-up area detection. The proposed method is capable of detecting built-up areas with an accuracy of more than 96% and a kappa of about 0.89 in overall comparison to other methods. 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