http://www.bucharestlife.net/2010/02/01/earthquake-77/ Capital living in Bucharest, Romania Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:45:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.bucharestlife.net/2010/02/01/earthquake-77/#comment-2909 Charly Lance Thu, 15 Apr 2010 06:32:32 +0000 http://www.bucharestlife.net/?p=2926#comment-2909 Have anyone noticed that earthquake is a bit frequent these days? . Does climate change have any thing to do with earthquake? Have anyone noticed that earthquake is a bit frequent these days? . Does climate change have any thing to do with earthquake?

]]> http://www.bucharestlife.net/2010/02/01/earthquake-77/#comment-2404 Craig Turp Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:09:43 +0000 http://www.bucharestlife.net/?p=2926#comment-2404 No. Still standing, solid as ever. No. Still standing, solid as ever.

]]> http://www.bucharestlife.net/2010/02/01/earthquake-77/#comment-2394 Jeroen Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:24:13 +0000 http://www.bucharestlife.net/?p=2926#comment-2394 That's a scary sound recording - but did the concert hall in question collapse? That’s a scary sound recording – but did the concert hall in question collapse?

]]> http://www.bucharestlife.net/2010/02/01/earthquake-77/#comment-2388 Parmalat Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:33:52 +0000 http://www.bucharestlife.net/?p=2926#comment-2388 My grandmother worked as a nurse back then, at the former Brancovenesc hospital which was later demolished. She told me there were so many wounded coming to the hospital that there were no bandages left and doctors and nurses had to tear their white slops to make bandages for the wounded. My father was 25, like I am now, and he was working for the National Institute of Statistics. That year there was a census going on and he and his team had just finished a day's work and they were out for a drink at a restaurant here in Berceni, very close to where I currently live. And he told me that when the earthquake started nobody knew in what direction to run to make it to the door. And the bar came down and tables and chandeleers came down on the people and when it finally ended, my father managed to come out from under the rubble and he only had a broken rib. Back then my family was living in a house in the Piata Norilor area, close to Tineretului metro station. And in that evening at home were my grandmother (which was later urgently called at the hostpital), my grandfather who was a policeman, my aunt and uncle (who both died many years ago) and two great-grandfathers of mine who came in visit. And my aunt told me many years ago that when the earthquake started, it felt first like a vertical movement and after the first moment a horizontal movement began, the lights went off and hell broke loose. One of my great-granfathers kept shouting "where's the exit", he didn't know the house too well and it was dark and there was also the earthquake making him disoriented and my uncle kept shouting "don't worry, don't worry the house is made of wood, it won't fall" so as to calm everyone down. My grandmother worked as a nurse back then, at the former Brancovenesc hospital which was later demolished.
She told me there were so many wounded coming to the hospital that there were no bandages left and doctors and nurses had to tear their white slops to make bandages for the wounded.
My father was 25, like I am now, and he was working for the National Institute of Statistics. That year there was a census going on and he and his team had just finished a day’s work and they were out for a drink at a restaurant here in Berceni, very close to where I currently live. And he told me that when the earthquake started nobody knew in what direction to run to make it to the door. And the bar came down and tables and chandeleers came down on the people and when it finally ended, my father managed to come out from under the rubble and he only had a broken rib.
Back then my family was living in a house in the Piata Norilor area, close to Tineretului metro station. And in that evening at home were my grandmother (which was later urgently called at the hostpital), my grandfather who was a policeman, my aunt and uncle (who both died many years ago) and two great-grandfathers of mine who came in visit. And my aunt told me many years ago that when the earthquake started, it felt first like a vertical movement and after the first moment a horizontal movement began, the lights went off and hell broke loose. One of my great-granfathers kept shouting “where’s the exit”, he didn’t know the house too well and it was dark and there was also the earthquake making him disoriented and my uncle kept shouting “don’t worry, don’t worry the house is made of wood, it won’t fall” so as to calm everyone down.

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