Thursday, March 11, 2010

The earthquake leaves million dollars of losses in Chile

As it happened in territory of Haiti, the people of Chile is living through moments much complicated for happened almost two weeks ago when an earthquake of big magnitude flogged to the South American country. In this occasion, this finance blog will allude to this earthquake that it affected to several Chilean regions.

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As everyone knows, an earthquake affected last Saturday, the 27th of February to the territory of Chile causing numerous damages in several regions and provoking hundreds of deaths. The magnitude of this earthquake was 8,8 grades, even major than it struck almost two months ago Haiti.

According to the informed for AFP, the reconstruction of Chile will last about between three and four year. This declaration there was realized for own president of the Andean country, Michelle Bachelet, who the others added that one will need financial aid of international organisms, as it can be the World Bank (BM), to achieve that Chile recovers of the earthquake.

As regards the BM, the international financial organism offered his support to the whole village of Chile. The president Robert B. Zoellick affirmed that the World Bank is ready to help to the Andean country as it did it with Haiti, informed the official web page of the organism.

According to informations of the web site Eqecat.com, of which the news agency Reuters did echo to itself, the earthquake will leave losses in territory of Chile, which might cost between 3.000 to 8.000 million dollars to the insurers.

Before finishing this journalistic article, it would be interesting to add that a few days ago realized a telethon to collect money to help the harmed ones by the earthquake of last February 27. So called “Chile helps Chile”, this television event relied on with the united presence of several local and foreign artists.

As published EFE, this event managed collected, in principle, about 56 million dollar, according to words of the recognized Chilean quizmaster Mario Luis Kreutzberger, known popularly like Don Francisco, who was the manager of leading the program “Chile it helps Chile”.

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