Albania: Earthquake, Nov 2019
Situation overview
Please send all next information to EUCPTeam now on charge:
eucpteam-a@echofield.eu

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Magnitude 6.4 quake struck at shallow depth, causing buildings to collapse in Tirana and nearby towns.

UN OCHA Focal Point:
Roberto Colangelo
UNDAC & INSARAG
Tel: +41 22 917 4114
Status of request for assistance
Following a request from Albania Govt on 06/12/19 SARAID deployed a team of 4 structural engineers to assist the EUCP team in carrying out damage assessments.

The team arrived in Tirana 11/12/19 at 1200hrs and traveled to Durres where they had a prelimary briefing in the Disaster Response Coordination Cell.

The team have a further briefing in DRCC 12/12/19 and have been allocated Region 2.

The team consist of:

Mark Scorer - Team Leader +44 7786 927510 mark.scorer@saraid.org.uk
Giles Waley
Suzie Cooper
Filip Kirazov
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