Economic consequences of the recent earthquakes in Turkey and Greece: Recommendation 1447 (2000)
Social consequences of the recent earthquakes in Turkey: Recommendation 1448 (2000)

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21 March 2001

Reply from the Committee of Ministers adopted at the 745th meeting of the Ministers' Deputies (14 March 2001)

The Committee of Ministers has carefully examined Parliamentary Assembly Recommendations 1447 (2000) on economic consequences of the recent earthquakes in Turkey and Greece and 1448 (2000) on social consequences of the recent earthquakes in Turkey.

By Dina Kyriakidou

ATHENS, Sept 6 (Reuters) - A year after the Athens earthquake that killed 143 people and damaged thousands of buildings in the Greek capital, many of the survivors still live in tiny prefabricated homes in camps ringing the city.

Eva Andreadou, 48, and her 18-year-old daughter Mariza were among the 700 people injured by the quake on September 7, 1999, whose home is now a two-room metal box.

Eva recalls the horror of being trapped in rubble when the earthquake levelled her apartment building and of being unable to reach Mariza who was also trapped nearby.

Press release: PM 1999/052

Luxembourg, 20 December 1999 - The European Investment Bank (EIB), the European Union's long-term lending institution, is providing a first loan of EUR 300 million for urgent reconstruction in the greater Athens area, hit by a devastating earthquake, on September 7th 1999.

The loan forms part of a larger facility of up to EUR 900 million approved by the EIB, for financing the Earthquake Reconstruction Programme (ERP). Financing under this facility will be phased over a period of 2 to 3 years.

The funds are made available for the

The impact of the earthquake which reduced heavily populated areas of the Greek capital, Athens to rubble on 7 September - leaving some 138 people dead, 70,000 homeless and 13,000 families destitute - is far worse than first feared. Tens of thousands of people will remain homeless for weeks, or even months, to come, while thousands are unemployed following the destruction of four industrial plants and hundreds of small businesses. In order to support the Hellenic Red Cross in the assistance it is providing to earthquake victims, the International Federation has

THIS APPEAL REPLACES THE PRELIMINARY APPEAL LAUNCHED ON 14 SEPTEMBER 1999
THIS APPEAL SEEKS CHF 2,338,000 IN CASH, KIND AND SERVICES TO ASSIST 50,000 BENEFICIARIES FOR 3 MONTHS

Summary

The impact of the earthquake which reduced to rubble heavily populated areas of the Greek capital, Athens, earlier this month has turned out to be far worse than first feared. Tens of thousands of people will remain homeless for weeks, if not months, to come, while the economic effects of the disaster have resulted in wide-spread unemployment.

UNITED NATIONS, Sept 23 (AFP) - Turkey asked the General Assembly on Thursday to support a joint Greek-Turkish resolution to enhance the role of the UN in responding to earthquakes and other natural disasters.

Turkish Foreign Minister Ismail Cem thanked world leaders for "the exemplary display of solidarity and the swift response of the international community" to the quake which killed more than 15,000 people in his country on August 17.

On Wednesday, the Greek foreign minister, Georges Papandreou, told the Assembly that Turkey and Greece had agreed

Better buildings, military readiness are among the reasons Taiwan toll is less than Turkey's.

Alex Salkever, Special to The Christian Science Monitor

Three major temblors in the space of a little more than a month - in Turkey, Greece, and now Taiwan - are enough to set millennium doomsayers crowing. And it's prompting some people to wonder: Are we seeing a kind of global seismic chain reaction?

But the pace of big quake activity is normal, scientists say. Sudden slippages of the earth's fractured and evermoving crust trigger an average of 18 quakes of magnitude 7 or more each year.

OCHA-Geneva-99/0144
General Situation

1. On 15 September 1999, the General Secretariat for Civil Protection of the Greek Ministry of Interior released updated figures about the impact of the earthquake which hit the northern suburbs of Athens on 7 September 1999. The report states that 136 persons were killed and 4 people are still missing. Currently only 6 people are hospitalized due to injuries.

2. The General Secretariat for Civil Protection also reported that over 70,000 people are homeless, and the total number of affected population is over 100,000.

ATHENS, Sept 13 (AFP) - At least 122 people have died in the earthquake that jolted northern Athens last week, provisional figures released by the Greek health ministry showed Monday.

The previous count late Sunday put the number of deaths at 116. Since Sunday, searchers have pulled three more dead bodies from the rubble under the Ricomex insulation factory in Menidi, the worst-hit area just north of Athens, where more than 20 people died.

Another 18 people were still missing at three sites still being combed for victims -- most of them at the Ricomex plant, the fire service said.