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
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 [...]
Earthquake: Is Bucharest ready?
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 [...]
Romania in mourning as search for earthquake injured ‘called off’
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 [...]