Bucharest Earthquake

Some Bucharest In Your Pocket bits and pieces you might have missed…

by Craig Turp February 23, 2011 Bucharest

 Although we are certain that most of you are regular readers and fans of the fruits of our day job, Bucharest In Your Pocket, we thought we might highlight a couple of features that you might have missed… First off, there’s the Bucharest Earthquake of 1977 – the 34th anniversary of which (March 4th) approaches. [...]

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Earthquake Redux

by Craig Turp March 4, 2010 Bucharest

 In the current issue of Bucharest In Your Pocket we publish a feature on Bucharest’s earthquake of 1977, which took place 33 years ago today. Below is a short film (in Romanian) about the quake: the first 30 seconds or so is a recording of the earthquake made by Radio Romania, which was recording a [...]

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Earthquake ’77

by Craig Turp February 1, 2010 Bucharest

 No, not a new disaster movie, but a feature from the latest issue of Bucharest In Your Pocket. At 21:22, on the evening of March 4, 1977, Bucharest was hit by an earthquake measuring a whopping 7.3 on the Richter scale. It lasted for more almost a minute, during which time almost every building in [...]

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Earthquake: Is Bucharest ready?

by Craig Turp January 13, 2010 Bucharest

 The quick answer is of course no. This morning’s major quake in Haiti has had not just us at Bucharest Life scrambling around asking a few questions about what would happen if a big earthquake hit Bucharest. It has happened before of course. The last major earthquake was in 1977, though a smaller (and still [...]

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Romania in mourning as search for earthquake injured ‘called off’

by Craig Turp April 28, 2009 Media

 By Phil Quake News agencies and television channels across Romania last night officially called off their three-day search for people injured in last Saturday’s minor yet tragic earthquake. “It really is a tragedy,” said Catalin-Radu Tanase, top news reporter at Romania’s most popular TV station, Pro TV. “We have sent reporters all over the country [...]

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