2023-06-26 15:17:05
By Le Figaro with AFP
Posted 7 minutes ago, Updated just now
An earthquake took place on June 16. TANUT / stock.adobe.com
A violent earthquake occurred on June 16 in the town of Cram-Chaban, halfway between La Rochelle and Niort, without causing any casualties.
The earthquake that hit western France on June 16 will cause a total cost estimated between 200 and 350 million euros, said Monday the Central Reinsurance Fund (CCR), which announces that it will cover at least half. “In the affected municipalities, many buildings are damaged from a structural point of view, with falling chimneys, the collapse of roofs, even walls», Details the CCR. This is particularly the case of La Laigne, Cram-Chabran, Courçon-d’Aunis or even Benon, in Charente-Maritime (17) but also of Mauzé-sur-le-Mignon, Saint-Hilaire-La-Palud or even Niort, in Deux-Sèvres (79), indicates the public reinsurer. In several municipalities, it is the religious buildings that have been the most affected, also notes the CCR.
The cost of this earthquakeis estimated between 200 and 350 million euros, of which at least 50% will be covered by CCR“, she believes. He “will be reassessed gradually according to the post-seismic works, in progress“. Last Monday, the insurance expertise firm Saretec gave a first estimate, between 150 and 200 million euros, for more than 5,000 buildings affected, including several hundred severely.
Read alsoAn earthquake with a magnitude greater than 5 felt in several cities in western France
With a magnitude of 5.3 to 5.8 according to the National Seismic Monitoring Network (Renass) and the French Central Seismological Bureau (BCSF), the violent tremor occurred on June 16 at 6:38 p.m. in the town of Cram- Chaban, halfway between La Rochelle and Niort, without causing any casualties. Thirty followingshocks were observed in the three days following the main earthquake, also indicates the CCR. This is the largest earthquake in this region for fifty years and a seismic shock recorded in Oléron in 1972.
1687792745
#bill #estimated #million #euros #Reinsurance #Fund
