Overview

China Earthquake Administration provides EUR 1 million grant for Seismological Station Installation Project

Commitments (Constant USD, 2023)$1,927,250

Commitment Year•2009Country of Activity•AlgeriaDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•AlgeriaSector•Disaster Prevention And PreparednessFlow Type•Grant

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date: Jan 1, 2009

End (actual): Jul 19, 2009

Stakeholders

Organizations involved in projects and activities supported by financial and in-kind transfers from Chinese government and state-owned entities

Funding agencies

Government Agencies

China Earthquake Administration

Receiving agencies

Government Agencies

Algeria Center for Research in Astronomy, Astrophysics and Geophysics (CRAAG)

Implementing agencies

Government Agencies

Algeria Center for Research in Astronomy, Astrophysics and Geophysics (CRAAG)
China Earthquake Administration

Loan description

China Earthquake Administration provides EUR 1 million grant for Seismological Station Installation Project

Narrative

Full Description

Project narrative

In 2009, the China Earthquake Administration provided a EUR 1 million grant to the Government of Algeria’s Centre de Recherche en Astronomie Astrophysique (or Center for Research in Astronomy, Astrophysics and Geophysics or CRAAG) for the Seismological Station Installation Project. This project involved 20 seismological stations and a seismological monitoring center. The Deputy Director of the China Earthquake Administration, Liu Yuchen, and the Algerian Minister of State, Minister of the Interior and Local Communities, Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni, attended the project completion ceremony on July 19, 2009.

Staff comments

The French project title is projet d'installation de stations sismologiques.