IRAN'S EARTHQUAKE

Sarah,

Iran suffered two earthquakes last week.  One was 6.3 in magnitude and one was 6.4 in magnitude. 

The good news was that the earthquakes hit a rural area that was not densely populated. 

The bad news is that rural areas of Iran do not have adequate protection against earthquakes.  Most houses in the area were built with mud bricks that crumbled during the earthquake.  Accordingly, the villages that were hit, were hit really hard.  Some villages lost as much as a third of their population.  That is a devastating ratio.

So far, 306 are dead and 3,000 are injured.  16,000 are homeless.