Amatrice earthquake: the first toll in figures
Landsat 8 Satellite image |
This figure highlights, once again, the low penetration of earthquake insurance in an area highly exposed to this kind of events.
To date, the human toll of the disaster Amatrice reported 291 dead, 400 injured and 2 500 homeless.
As a reminder, the center of Italy is regularly affected by earthquakes of great magnitude. The latest largest disaster in the region took place on April 9, 2009 in L'Aquila, located in the Abruzzo region, at 50 km from Amatrice in Umbria.
Earthquakes of L'Aquila and AmatriceDisaster | Date | Time of occurence | Magnitude | Number of deaths | Cost of insured losses |
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L’Aquila earthquake | 9 April 2009 | 3:32 AM | 6.3 | 308 | 330 million USD |
Amatrice earthquake | 24 August 2016 | 3:30 AM | 6.2 | 2911 | 200 million USD2 |
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