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 [...]
Read the full article →
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 [...]
Read the full article →