(28 May 2004)
1. People walking in street (30 minutes after earthquake)
2. Family sitting in park
3. Man putting belongings in the trunk of his car to leave for the night
4. People sitting in park
5. Family who were afraid of after shakes sitting in park
6. People who were afraid of earthquake sitting in park
7. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Rozita, who has left her home with her family:
"I was in the house at that time, I was washing the dishes in the kitchen, suddenly I felt the shakes, whatever was on the TV fell down on the ground. I called my daughter, she was afraid, I was afraid also, I lost control."
8. Ali with his family have planned to stay the in park at night because they are afraid of any probable earthquake (an hour and a half after earthquake)
9. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Ali, who wants to sleep in park overnight:
"It lasted for eight seconds, and we were so afraid that we thought maybe the building would fall down. We have seen the earthquake in Bam. Now we are so afraid and have decided to sleep in the park overnight."
10. Family in park
11. Food
12. Another family in park
13. Cookies and dates and tea, for one of the families who want to stay in park overnight
14. Family sitting in park
15. Traffic in after earthquake
16. Tower in Tehran, most of the residents have left (two hours after earthquake)
17. House which has been emptied after earthquake
18. Police forces keeping the city secured
19. Tehran at night
20. Cars in street, people hesitating to go to their houses
21. Entrance door of a house which its residents have left
22. Apartment whose residents have left after earthquake
23. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Saeed, Tehran resident:
"When the shakes finished we were in the street, people were afraid and some of them came to the street from the bathroom directly. I hope that officials do something to better the construction of buildings in Tehran."
24. People walking in street carrying bags to sleep in parks overnight
25. Tehran at night
STORYLINE:
At least 23 people have been killed and more than 80 villages seriously damaged in a strong quake that hit northern and central Iran on Friday, the Iranian Interior Ministry said.
A ministry spokesman told The Associated Press that the villages hit hardest by the late afternoon quake were near Alamout, about 130 kilometres (80 miles) west of Tehran.
More than 100 people were injured in the quake, which was measured at 6.2 magnitude by the United States Geological Survey.
Sixteen people were buried in their cars and more than 70 others injured by landslides and falling boulders on the mountainous Tehran-Chalous road, state-run television reported.
Five people were killed in Mazandaran province and two in Qazvin province, Tehran radio said.
The quake also damaged homes and buildings in both provinces.
In Kelardasht, 100 kilometres (62 miles) north of Tehran, eight people were injured and 30 buildings were damaged by the quake, which struck at 5:08 p.m. local time (1238 GMT).
The radio said at least 20 other people in several areas were also injured.
The quake shook eight provinces in central and northern Iran.
Tehran University's seismological centre said there were 12 aftershocks, including one with a 4.4-magnitude.
The centre said the quake had a 5.5 magnitude and said its epicentre was in the village of Baladeh, 69 kilometres (43 miles) northeast of Tehran, near the Caspian Sea.
In Tehran, the quake broke windows in parts of the city, causing panicked residents to rush outdoors.
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