Vatican City, 8 June 2006 - Caritas Italy will move forward with plans to build 400 temporary showers for the victims of the earthquake in Iran's Lorestan province on March 31st, which levelled about 70 villages and severely damaged about 260 others, making some 15,000 people homeless.
Caritas Internationalis has opened an appeal for just over $US 460,000 to help fund the project.

The quake, which was preceded by a series of tremors that served as a warning, measured 6.0 on the Richter scale. Because authorities had issued warnings to residents to move outside after

Ukraine will render humanitarian relief to Iran to the tune of 2.66 M. UAH (some 600,000 USD) for liquidation of consequences of the earthquake, which stroke Iran on March 31, 2006. The decision to this end was passed at a regular session of the Govt on Wednesday, the Cabinet press service told.

The Govt instructed the Emergencies Management Ministry to secure the purchase of the necessary goods, their delivery and transfer to the Iranian side. Ukraine means to deliver 1,100 tents for 11,000 persons.

Iran: (2006-05-02) - On March 31 there was a great earthquake in Lorestan province in Iran. Three earthquakes and 12 after shocks left about 80 people dead, over 1400 injured, and 340 villages with 55 percent damage. 35,000 homes were completely destroyed and 43,000 homes were partially damaged effecting over 200,000 people.
Fortunately the number of deaths was relatively low as people were able to get out of their homes when the first tremors hit. The people stayed outside all night so that when the bigger earthquake hit they were outside their homes.

Doroud, Lorestan Prov, April 20, IRNA - An earthquake measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale rocked the city of Doroud in the western province of Lorestan early Thursday morning.

According to the seismological base of the Geophysics Institute of Tehran University, the quake occurred at 02:45 hours local time (05:58 GMT).

The base registered the epicenter of the quake somewhere in the vicinity of Doroud, the report added.

The quake sent freightened residents running to the streets.

There were no casualties or damage to property caused by this morning's quake.

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CORRIGENDUM 1

OCHA Situation Report No. 3
Islamic Republic of Iran - Earthquake
Occurred on 30-31 March

This report is based on information provided by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Liaison Office and the Office of the UN Resident Coordinator in Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran.

I. SITUATION

1. Following last week's earthquakes and subsequent aftershocks along a major fault line, Silakhor, affecting Lorestan province, the Government now confirms 63 deaths, 1,418 injured

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), which is providing material relief to the victims of last week's earthquake in Iran, today announced plans to offer psychosocial support to traumatized youngsters in the coming weeks.
"Families are sleeping in tents, in their cars and in makeshift shelters wherever they can," UNICEF country representative Christian Salazar said after visiting the Lorestan area, where the agency immediately rushed 10,000 blankets after the 31 March quake.

"The temperature is down to five degrees

By Zahra Sethna
LORESTAN, Iran, 5 April 2006 - UNICEF is at the front lines of the emergency relief effort in the aftermath of the 31 March earthquake and aftershocks in Lorestan, Iran. UNICEF's Representative in Iran, Christian Salazar, spent time over the last few days in the city of Boroujerd, one of the hardest-hit areas. "It's like a ghost town," he said. "Ten thousand houses and all the schools are destroyed."

A total of 130 schools were completely destroyed in the areas worst affected by the earthquake and aftershocks.

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations]
Ankara, 4 April (IRIN) - There is growing concern over the welfare of tens of thousands of children affected by a series of quakes in western Iran last week, which killed at least 66 people and injured over 1,000 more.

"Preliminary indications suggest that 36,000 school-age children were affected in the two districts of Douroud and Boroujerd," Country Representative for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Christian Salazar Volkmann, told IRIN on Tuesday from the