At 6.8 on the Richter scale, the latest earthquake in Kerman could have killed 1,000 people, as one in 1981 did. In fact it killed only 5. That's because Iran is learning to fight earthquake damage. In 1990 alone, earthquakes killed a staggering 40,000 Iranians. A drum beats, men beat their chests and women wail at a funeral for earthquake victims. We follow Ali Sayed as he returns to his home village of Abiz where his parents were recently killed. "When we got my parents out, they were lying facing Mecca." All around him is the familiar rubble. It took just ten minutes for the earthquake to kill 180 people from Abiz alone. The Red Crescent Society normally co-ordinates aid, but on this occasion Iran called on the international community for help because of exhausted supplies. To prevent such catastrophic events from re-occurring the Iranian government asked the UN to draw up specifications for architects and engineers carrying out reconstruction work.