Romania Earthquake

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: 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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