It caused the loss of 1,578 lives and injured an additional 11,221, with 90% of the fatalities being in the capital city Bucharest. The earthquake of 4 March 1977 incurred one of the heaviest earthquake-related death tolls of the 1970s around the world. In Soviet Moldavia the earthquake destroyed and damaged many buildings in the capital Chișinău a panic broke out. Many other buildings were damaged, including the Church of the Holy Trinity. Three blocks of flats in the Bulgarian town of Svishtov (near Zimnicea) collapsed, killing more than 100 people. In Bulgaria the earthquake is known as the Vrancea earthquake or Svishtov earthquake. After the earthquake, the Romanian government imposed tougher construction standards, and would use the earthquake as a pretext to start the major demolitions campaign in Bucharest in 1982, a campaign that lasted up to 1991. Most of those buildings were built before World War II, and were not reinforced. Most of the damage was concentrated in Romania's capital, Bucharest, where about 33 large buildings collapsed. A detailed report on the destruction the earthquake caused was never published.
The economic losses are believed to have been as high as two billion US dollars though the sum was not confirmed by the authorities at that time. Immediately after the earthquake, 35,000 families were without shelter. Communist ruler Nicolae Ceaușescu suspended his official visit to Nigeria and declared a state of emergency.Ībout 32,900 buildings were damaged or destroyed. Bakonsky, Alexandru Ivasiuc and Corneliu M. Among the victims were actor Toma Caragiu and writers A. The earthquake killed about 1,578 people (1,424 in Bucharest) in Romania, and wounded more than 11,300. The hypocenter was situated in the Vrancea Mountains, the most seismically active part of Romania, at a depth of 85.3 km.
It had a magnitude of 7.5, making it the second most powerful earthquake recorded in Romania in the 20th century, after the 10 November 1940 seismic event. The 1977 Vrancea earthquake occurred on 4 March 1977, at 21:22 local time, and was felt throughout the Balkans. Enei Church, severely damaged during the 1977 earthquake, was later demolished.
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