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The seismicity of Romania is clustered in several epicentral zones: Vrancea, Făgăraș-Câmpulung, Banat, Crișana, Maramureș, and Southern Dobrogea. [1] [2] Other epicentral zones of local importance can be found in Transylvania, in the area of Jibou and Târnava River, in the northern and western part of Oltenia, in northern Moldova, and the Wallachian Plain. [3]
Striking central Romania on August 30 at 21:28 UTC, the 1986 Vrancea earthquake killed more than 150 people, injured over 500, and damaged over 50,000 homes. The second largest earthquake in the area since the modernization of earthquake monitoring devices, [2] it was felt north to Poland and south to Italy and Greece.
The earthquake of 4 March 1977 incurred one of the heaviest earthquake-related death tolls of the 1970s around the world. It caused the loss of 1,578 lives and injured an additional 11,221, [6] with 90% of the fatalities being in the capital city Bucharest.
The 1990 Vrancea earthquakes were three earthquakes on 30 and 31 May 1990 with magnitudes of 7.0 M w [3] and 6.2 M w [4] that struck the Romanian county of Vrancea, on two consecutive days.
Antena 3 Cable News Network, known as Antena 3 CNN, formerly Antena 3 (Romanian pronunciation: [anˈtena ˈtrej]), is a Romanian news channel owned by Antena 3 S.A. and part of the Intact Media Group. [1]
Agerpres is the oldest Romanian news agency and the first autonomous agency in Romania.It was established in March 1889 at the initiative of Foreign Minister Petre P. Carp, as the Telegraph Agency of Romania or Romanian Agency with serving as a "fast and accurate service of all general or special interest news".
The 1940 Vrancea earthquake, also known as the 1940 Bucharest earthquake, (Romanian: Cutremurul din 1940) occurred on Sunday, 10 November 1940, in Romania, at 03:39 (local time), when the majority of the population was at home.
The 1952 Severo-Kurilsk earthquake struck off the coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula.The 9.0 M w earthquake occurred on 5 November 1952 at 04:58 local time, triggering a major tsunami that hit Severo-Kurilsk, Kuril Islands, Sakhalin Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR. [5]