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| Norway provides relief for tremor victims in Vanj |
| [14.01.2010, 04:13pm, Thu. GMT] |
Norway is one of the first to respond to Tajik government’s appeal for assistance and provided humanitarian assistance for the population of the Vanj district in Gorno Badakhshan that was seriously affected by a January 2 earthquake, according to the Committee for Emergency Situations (CES) under the Government of Tajikistan. A plane carrying relief items provided by Norway landed at the Dushanbe airport Tuesday (January 12) evening, the source at a CES said, noting that the assistance included 105 stoves, 105 heated tents and 2,000 blankets.
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In the meantime, ceaseless tremors in the disaster-hit area evoke serious concern of specialists. “We are receiving information about daily slight tremors,” said the source, “Therefore, we must relocate people from the tremor-hit area to safe places as soon as possible.”
Seismologists attribute continuing tremors in that area to the Vanj-Akbaytal fracture activation.
We will recall that Tajik authorities on January 11 appealed to international humanitarian organizations and UN agencies active in the country with solicitation to mobilize existing resources to provide an urgent assistance in form of building materials or finances as well as support for construction of standard quakeproof residential buildings for the tremor victims in Vanj.
According to specialists, the situation that emerged at the tremor site requires immediate relocation of some 200 families to safe places. Local authorities are currently experiencing an acute shortage of building materials, fuels, foodstuffs and medicines. International organizations such as German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ), the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), UNDP, UNICEF, Global Partners, and FOCUS have provided foodstuffs and primary necessities to the tremor-affected population.
The country’s government is taking all necessary measures to provide assistance to the quake-hit population. The first bulk of the humanitarian aid was delivered to the area on January 6. The assistance included wheat flour, vegetable oil, macaroni, rice and sugar, totaling 25 tons and 110 tents provided from the president’s resident’s fund. However, the country’s authorities are not able to remove effect of the tremor on their own.
A January 2 tremor mainly hit the administrative center of Vanj and nearby villages of Gishkhund, Rogh, Uskrogh and Payshanbeobod as well as some villages in the Yazgulem jamoat. 1,019 residential buildings were damaged; 134 of them were destroyed completely and some 600 people were left without shelter. There were no casualties as residents left their houses when they felt the first tremors. |
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