NU Online News Service, March 4, 12:31 p.m. EST
Aon Benfield said assessing insured losses from the latest Christchurch, New Zealand earthquake will be “extremely difficult and complex” because of an earlier quake, known as the Darfield earthquake, that struck the same region in September 2010.
“The people of New Zealand were still coming to terms with the widespread damage caused by last year’s Darfield earthquake,” said Steve Jakubowski, president of Impact Forecasting, a part of Aon Benfield, which publishes a monthly catastrophe report. The second quake “has proved even more devastating both in terms of extensive structural damage and its impact on human lives, due to its shallower depth and epicenter located much closer to Christchurch,” he added.
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