2023-06-19 14:35:19
By Le Figaro with AFP
Posted 44 minutes ago, Just Updated
The violent tremor occurred Friday at 6:38 p.m. in the town of Cram-Chaban (Charente-Maritime). THIBAUD MORITZ / AFP
About 100 buildings are “heavily damaged” with “partial collapses of load-bearing structures” and 300 show partial damage.
The earthquake that struck western France on Friday damaged more than 5,000 buildings for an estimated total cost of between 150 and 200 million euros, insurance firm Saretec said on Monday. More than 5,000 buildings experiencedcracks in plaster and falling objects“, Indicates the company, which dispatched experts on the spot on Saturday and Sunday.
Around 100 buildings are “heavily damaged” with some “partial collapses of load-bearing structures” and 300 show partial damage to the load-bearing structures “without causing collapse“, she continues. This last digitcould continue to increase“, warns the CEO of the Saretec group Jean-Vincent Raymondis, over the identification of damage “not seen by the occupants or the emergency services when they carried out the interventions».
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An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 to 5.8
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 Friday at 6:38 p.m. in the town of Cram-Chaban ( Charente-Maritime), near Mauzé-sur-le-Mignon (Deux-Sèvres), halfway between La Rochelle and Niort. This is the largest earthquake in this region for fifty years and a seismic shock recorded in Oléron in 1972.
«In this rural area, these are mainly old houses, with very limited resistance to earthquakes“says Jean-Vincent Raymondis. The tremor was felt in a large part of the west of the country, from Rennes to Bordeaux and as far as Limoges, generating numerous calls to the emergency services and testimonies on social networks. “Given the intensity of the earthquake (…), an accelerated natural disaster recognition procedure will be initiated in order to take into account the potential structural damage.“, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said on Saturday on Twitter.
On November 11, 2019, an earthquake of 5.4 on the open Richter scale – a power without equivalent in France for 16 years – injured four people, including one seriously, in the Rhône valley and caused major material damage in Teil ( Ardeche). The cost of damage was comparable, around 175 million euros, according to Saretec.
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