by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 16, 2023 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance
The number of people killed by the deadliest earthquake in Turkey’s modern history has risen to 36,187, authorities said Total property losses from the magnitude 7.8 and 7.5 earthquakes are expected to be close to $20 billion, Karen Clark & Co said Catastrophe...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 15, 2023 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance
Confirmed deaths in Turkiye passed those recorded from the massive Erzincan earthquake in 1939 that killed around 33,000 people. Speaking in Ankara following a five-hour Cabinet meeting held at the headquarters of disaster agency AFAD, Erdogan said 47,000 buildings,...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 12, 2023 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life, Risk Management
According to the Ministry of Earth Sciences, 59 per cent of India’s land mass is prone to earthquakes. Zone V is seismically the most active region, while Zone II is the least. Around 11 per cent of the country’ area falls in Zone V, 18 per cent in Zone IV...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 9, 2023 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life
The death toll from both countries was expected to rise as hundreds of collapsed buildings in many cities have become tombs for people who had been asleep when the quake hit. KAHRAMANMARAS/ANTAKYA, Turkey: President Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday admitted there were...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 7, 2023 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News
In Turkey, the death toll stood at 2,316, the Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) said, making it the country’s deadliest earthquake since a tremor of similar magnitude in 1999 devastated the heavily populated eastern Marmara Sea region near...
