The inventory of the damage caused by the largest earthquake to have struck western France in fifty years is now complete. According to an estimate from France Assureurs, received on Tuesday July 4 by Agence France-Presse (AFP), the bill for the earthquake detected on June 16 should amount to around 290 million euros.
This new estimate of the earthquake bill is in the middle of the range published last week by the Central Reinsurance Fund (CCR), which will bear at least half of the claims and assessed the damage at a sum between 200 million and 350 million euros.
The France Assureurs federation is counting on a total of 21,625 claims, the vast majority of which (95.9%) concern homes with damage estimated at 260 million euros. After homes, professional property was the second most affected category (750 claims for 28 million euros), followed by agricultural property (90 claims for 1.4 million euros) and automobiles (45 claims for €190,000).
With a magnitude of 5.3 to 5.8 according to the National Seismic Monitoring Network (Renass) and the French Central Seismological Bureau (BCSF), the violent tremor occurred on June 16 at 6:38 p.m. in the town of Cram-Chaban, halfway between La Rochelle and Niort.
