Rapports

Guidelines The following information has been extracted from the recently revised PAHO Scientific Publication No. 407. This revised version will be available for distribution by the summer of 1999. Immediate Health Problems Related to Earthquakes Usually because of dwelling destruction, earthquakes may cause…

The European Commission is making available humanitarian aid worth 1 million euro for Colombia struck by an earthquake measured six on the Richter scale. The aid, managed by the European Community Humanitarian Office (ECHO), is for victims of the…

World Vision, a leading Canadian humanitarian agency, is preparing its response to the earthquake in Colombia, sending a Guelph, Ont., staff member to the region to join an emergency assessment team. Philip Maher will join Fanny Gutierrez, a World Vision staff…

AVISO DE ÚLTIMO MOMENTO Contacto: John McCoy (253) 815-2247, Cathy MacCaul (253) 815-2163 SEATTLE: World Vision ha despachado trabajadores, medicinas y otras provisiones de emergencia a Armenia en Colombia central, devastada por el terremoto de 6.0 grados el día lunes. World…

An earthquake in western Colombia has killed at least one thousand people and injured scores of others as it toppled buildings and flattened neighborhoods in the South American country's Andes mountains. The early afternoon quake measured six on the Richter scale…

WASHINGTON, January 26, 1999 -- More than 1,000 Colombian Red Cross relief workers are working around-the-clock rescuing those buried by landslides after a tremendous magnitude 6 earthquake Monday razed cities and towns in western Colombia. Colombian Red Cross workers are…

Ref: OCHAGVA - 99/000 Colombia - Earthquake OCHA Geneva Situation Report No. 1 26 January 1999 1. On 25 January 1999, an earthquake occurred at 18.19hours (GMT) in Colombia: magnitude (according to local source) of 6.0 on the Richter Scale, epicentre in…

Press Release - SG/SM/6873 19990126 The following statement was issued today by a spokesperson for Secretary-General Kofi Annan in Geneva: The Secretary-General was profoundly distressed to learn of the devastation caused by the recent earthquake in the Department of Valle del Cauca…

"My team worked in Quimestan. The tactical challenge CCD had of getting volunteers from Tegucigalpa [the capital of Honduras] to Santa Barbara Province was not easy. CCD staff worked on Christmas and New Years to keep people moving in…

Dr. Michel Thieren, EHA Country Operation Medical Officer WHO Geneva, 25 January 1999 The Impact of the Hurricane The impact of Hurricane Mitch stroke the Central American subcontinent starting on 26 October 1998. Five countries, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala El Salvador and Belize…