Bucharest - Ienei Church - 1977

The 1977 Bucharest Earthquake occurred on Friday, 4 March 1977, 21:20 local time and was felt throughout the Balkans. It had a magnitude of 7.4 and its epicenter in Vrancea (in the Eastern Carpathians) at a depth of 94 kilometers. Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... March 4 is the 63rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (64th in leap years). ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... The Richter magnitude test scale (or more correctly local magnitude ML scale) assigns a single number to quantify the size of an earthquake. ... The epicenter is directly above the earthquakes focus. ... Vrancea is a county (judeţ) in the center of Romania in the Moldova region, with the capital city at Focşani (population: 103,219). ... Satellite image of the Carpathians The Carpathian Mountains are the eastern wing of the great Central Mountain System of Europe, curving 1500 km (~900 miles) along the borders of Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro and northern Hungary. ...

It killed about 1,570 people and wounded more than 11,000. Among the victims was the Romanian actor Toma Caragiu. Toma Caragiu (21 August 1925 - 4 March 1977) was a Romanian actor with a rich history in theatre, television and film. ...

About 35,000 buildings were damaged, and the total damage was estimated at more than two billion dollars. Most of the damage was concentrated in Romania's capital, Bucharest, where about 33 large buildings collapsed (most of which were built before World War II and not reinforced). Many of these historic buildings were not rebuilt; instead, the land was cleared for the building of the Palace of the Parliament. But after the earthquake, the Romanian government imposed tougher standards for the construction of buildings. In politics, a capital (also called capital city or political capital — although the latter phrase has a second meaning based on an alternative sense of capital) is the principal city or town associated with a countrys government. ... Status Capital of Romania Mayor Adriean Videanu, since 2005 Area 228 km² Population (2005) 2,064,000[1] Density 8,443 inh/km² Geographical coordinates Web site http://www1. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... The Palace of the Parliament (Romanian: Palatul Parlamentului) in Bucharest, Romania is, with a floor area of 350,000 m², second worlds largest building. ...

In Bulgaria, the earthquake is known as the Vrancea Earthquake or Svishtov Earthquake. Three blocks of flats in the Bulgarian town of Svishtov collapsed, killing more than 100 people. Many other buildings were damaged, including the Church of the Holy Trinity. Svishtov is a Bulgarian town at Danube river, nearly 235 km north-east from Sofia. ... Image:Holy-trinity-svishtov. ...

Famous Romanians, victims of the earthquake

• Toma Caragiu
• Anatol E. Baconski
• Alexandru Ivasiuc
• Mihai Gafiţa
• Corneliu M. Popescu
• Alexandru Bocăneţ
• Doina Badea
• Savin Bratu
• Daniela Caurea
• Mihail Petroveanu
• Veronica Porumbacu
• Eliza Petrăchescu
• Tudor Dumitrescu
• Ioan Siadbei
• Mihaela Mărăcineanu
• Nicolae Vatamanu