Background: On August 17 at 3:02 a.m. local time, an earthquake lasting 45 seconds and confirmed to be 7.4 on the Richter scale, hit Izmit, Turkey, approximately 55 miles east-southeast of Istanbul. Major affected areas include various districts of Istanbul and provinces of Izmit (Kocaeli), Adapazari (Sakarya), Yalova, Bursa, Eskishir, and Bolu to the east and southeast of Istanbul. The Government of Turkey (GOT) also reports that Turkey's main naval base at Golcuk was hard-hit. Geophysicists at the U.S. National Earthquake

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
BUREAU FOR HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE (BHR)
OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA)
Regional: Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from Kosovo*

Country	Returns to Kosovo August 18-24	Cumulative returns to Kosovo
Albania	259	432,200
Macedonia	154

The rainfall situation for Chad improved during July with heavy rains moving into the Sahelian agroclimatic zone. These rains will create soil conditions necessary for an excellent recessional agriculture season. If conditions remain favorable, the Sahelian zone could have an above-average harvest for the second year in a row. In some areas, however, rivers swelled in mid-July and caused seasonal disruptions in road transportation and abnormal flooding that damaged crops (see flood situation box).
The July rains have come too late for

WASHINGTON, D.C. - J. Brady Anderson, Administrator for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), will leave for Turkey Sunday to see first hand the devastation caused by last week's earthquake that has claimed more than 12,000 lives and left 600,000 people homeless.

As the President's International Disaster Assistance Coordinator, Anderson will tour the areas hardest hit by the earthquake including Izmit, Yalova, and Golcuk. He will meet with the Turkish Prime Minister and other government officials and U.S. Embassy

Background: On August 17 at 3:02 a.m. local time, an earthquake lasting 45 seconds and confirmed to be 7.4 on the Richter scale, hit Izmit, Turkey, approximately 55 miles east-southeast of Istanbul. Major affected areas include various districts of Istanbul and provinces of Izmit (Kocaeli), Adapazari (Sakarya), Yalova, Bursa, Eskishir, and Bolu to the east and southeast of Istanbul. The Government of Turkey (GOT) also reports that Turkey's main naval base at Golcuk was hard-hit. Geophysicists at the U.S. National Earthquake Information Center

Background: On August 17 at 3:02 a.m. local time, an earthquake lasting 45 seconds and confirmed to be 7.4 on the Richter scale, hit Izmit, Turkey, approximately 55 miles east-southeast of Istanbul. Major affected areas include various districts of Istanbul and provinces of Izmit (Kocaeli), Adapazari (Sakarya), Yalova, Bursa, Eskishir, and Bolu to the east and southeast of Istanbul. The Government of Turkey (GOT) also reports that Turkey's main naval base at Golcuk was hard-hit. Geophysicists at the U.S. National Earthquake

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
BUREAU FOR HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE (BHR)
OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA)
Regional: Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from Kosovo*

Country	Returns to Kosovo August 18-24	Cumulative returns to Kosovo
Albania	259	432,200
Macedonia

Background: On August 17 at 3:02 a.m. local time, an earthquake lasting 45 seconds and confirmed to be 7.4 on the Richter scale, hit Izmit, Turkey, approximately 55 miles east-southeast of Istanbul. Major affected areas include various districts of Istanbul and provinces of Izmit (Kocaeli), Adapazari (Sakarya), Yalova, Bursa, Eskishir, and Bolu to the east and southeast of Istanbul. The Government of Turkey (GOT) also reports that Turkey's main naval base at Golcuk was hard-hit. Geophysicists at the U.S. National Earthquake

Background: On August 17 at 3:02 a.m. local time, an earthquake lasting 45 seconds and confirmed to be 7.4 on the Richter scale, hit Izmit, Turkey, approximately 55 miles east-southeast of Istanbul. Major affected areas include various districts of Istanbul and provinces of Izmit (Kocaeli), Adapazari (Sakarya), Yalova, Bursa, Eskishir, and Bolu to the east and southeast of Istanbul. The Government of Turkey (GOT) also reports that Turkey's main naval base at Golcuk was hard-hit. Geophysicists at the U.S. National Earthquake Information Center