Engineers inspecting homes shattered on Crete by a 5.8-magnitude earthquake said some 75 percent of them can’t be lived in again and that there was massive damage to businesses, churches, public buildings, and schools.
Some 1,199 structures were checked in the municipalities of Minoa Pediada, Archanes-Asterousia, Iraklio, Malevizi, and Oropedio Lasithiou, including
Of the 995 homes inspected, 772 have been declared uninhabitable, and the ratio was the same for workplaces and churches as well as 71 of 74 warehouses surveyed found unsafe, noted Kathimerini.
They also carried out checks on 18 schools, of which six have been declared unfit for use because there was so much damage from the quake, which killed one person and left 20 people injured.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis – whose family is from Crete – went there to see the damage for himself and promise relief is coming in an up to 30-million euro ($34.79 million) package for rebuilding what can be done safely.
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