I know that the frappé l’ouest de la France on June 16 will entail a total cost estimated between 200 and 350 million euros, affirms Monday the Caisse centrale de réassurance (CCR), which announces that it will take charge au moins half.
“In the affected municipalities, many buildings are damaged from a structural point of view, with chimneys falling, roofs collapsing, even walls,” the CCR details in a press release.
This is particularly the case in La Laigne, Cram-Chabran, Courçon-d’Aunis or even Benon, in Charente-Maritime (17) but also in Mauzé-sur-le-Mignon, Saint-Hilaire-La-Palud or even Niort , in Deux-Sèvres (79), indicates the public reinsurer. In several municipalities, religious buildings are the most affected, the CCR also highlights.
More than 5,000 buildings affected
The cost of this earthquake “is estimated between 200 and 350 million euros, of which at least 50% will be borne by CCR,” he estimates. “It will be gradually re-evaluated according to the post-seismic work in progress.” Last Monday, the specialized insurance firm Saretec gave a first estimate, between 150 and 200 million euros, for more than 5,000 affected buildings, including several hundred seriously.
With a magnitude of 5.3 to 5.8 according to the National Seismic Surveillance Network (Renass) and the Central Seismological Bureau of France (BCSF), the violent earthquake was recorded on June 16 at 6:38 p.m. in the town Cram-Chaban, halfway between La Rochelle and Niort, without causing casualties. Thirty aftershocks were observed in the three days after the mainshock, the CCR also indicates. This is the largest earthquake in this region in fifty years and a seismic shock recorded in Oléron in 1972.
Source: BFM TV
