1738 Vrancea earthquake

Earthquake in Romania 1738 Vrancea earthquake Romania#Europe yes 31 May 1738 11:00 7.5 s yhttp://www.infp.ro/seismicitate-locala/seismicitatea-romaniei Seismicitatea României National Institute for Earth Physics Romanian dead https://web.archive.org/web/20140924223430/http://www1.infp.ro/seismicitate-locala/seismicitatea-romaniei 2014-09-24 7.7 Mw 130 km 45.7 N 26.6 E inline,title Romania Serbia 9.5 MSKhttp://sd.utcb.ro/_upload/content/docs/233_bica_andrei-gabriel_-_rezumat_ro.pdf Vulnerabilitatea seismică a fondului construit din România la acțiunea cutremurelor vrâncene Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest Bică Andrei Gabriel 2013 Romanian 2014-09-16 https://web.archive.org/web/20150122151257/http://sd.utcb.ro/_upload/content/docs/233_bica_andrei-gabriel_-_rezumat_ro.pdf 2015-01-22 dead Yes 8 May 1738 Unknown The 1738 Vrancea earthquake occurred on 11 June 1738 31 May, during the third rule of Constantin Mavrocordat. The seism aroused great panic and is mentioned in several sources. It occurred in the lower lithospheric block, at a depth of 130 km. Its effects were violent on large areas, the hardest hit being Bucharest, where several houses and churches collapsed. The Romanian territories were not the only affected. In Niš, a Serbian city where the Ottoman army was quartered, the fortress on Nišava partially collapsed, and in Nikopol on Danube four mosques collapsed.http://vladimirrosulescu-istorie.blogspot.ro/2011/09/craiova-cutremure.html Craiova – Cutremure Vladimir Rosulescu – Istorie 15 September 2011 Romanianhttp://www.iitk.ac.in/nicee/wcee/article/13_2444.pdf Forensic engineering studies on historical earthquakes in Romania 13th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering 1–6 August 2004 Vancouver Georgescu Emil-Sever At an estimated magnitude of 7.7 on the Richter scale, the earthquake of 1738 is one of the strongest in Romanian history. Foreshock thumb|left|150px|Popular tradition says that the maximum intensity of the earthquake was reached when Prince Constantin Mavrocordat kissed the icon of St. Paraskeva during his visit at a monastery in Moldavia According to the catalogue of Cornelius Radu, several foreshocks of magnitude 5–6 occurred starting with March 1738. In a chronicle it is mentioned that a "large" foreshock happened on 8 May 1738. It occurred at "5 o'clock", but its magnitude is not known. Damage The earthquake was felt especially in Bucharest, Iași, Focșani, Buzău, and Sfântu Gheorghe. In Iași, 11 monasteries, 15 houses, 15 towers, and a church steeple collapsed.http://forpedia.ro/showthread.php?2316-Istoria-cutremurelor-in-Romania Istoria cutremurelor în România Forpedia 24 November 2010 Romanian 16 September 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140714204739/http://forpedia.ro/showthread.php?2316-Istoria-cutremurelor-in-Romania 14 July 2014 dead In the Carpathian Mountains, several rockslides occurred, a large one in the Buzău River Valley. Significant damage was reported in citadels like Rupea, Șchei, and Prejmer, where walls and defending towers were destroyed or severely damaged.http://www.roeduseis.ro/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Poster_7_Brasovul-si-seismele.pdf Brașovul și seismele Roeduseis Georgescu Emil-Sever Dobre Daniela Dragomir Claudiu-Sorin Borcia Ioan Sorin Romanian The seismic wave also affected the Neamț Citadel, where its thick walls collapsed.http://www.cotidianul.ro/in-romania-cutremurul-catastrofal-vine-dupa-2041-150227/ În România cutremurul catastrofal vine după 2041! Cotidianul Gabriel Păleanu 25 June 2011 Romanian In the chronicle of Constantin Dapontes it is mentioned that the walls of the Princely Palace in Bucharest were cracked. In a book of hours it appears that on 31 May the earth was shaken, and even "split and came out water with smell of gunpowder and brimstone". In the same book of hours it is mentioned that many arches and walls of monasteries and houses in Bucharest were cracked, while "outside" churches and arches have collapsed. A Slavo-Romanian psalter gives information about the intensity of the earthquake: "the earth trembled in the month of May, on 31, midday, very strong, and went to the east and again turned backward. And the trees were shaking, like the wind, and has destroyed homes and the earth made great noise".http://www.antena3.ro/romania/scurt-istoric-al-cutremurelor-majore-produse-in-romania-video-70135.html Scurt istoric al cutremurelor majore produse în România Antena 3 26 April 2009 Romanian In From yesterday Bucharest (ro Din Bucureștii de ieri), George Potra reminds that the calamity "began with a great roaring". Many houses and churches were damaged and a "deep fracture" was open near Bucharest.http://www.nipne.ro/rjp/2007_52_1-2/0171_0196.pdf Large Vrancea intermediate depth earthquakes and seismic microzonation of Bucharest urban area Horia Hulubei National Institute for R&D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering 16 October 2006 Mândrescu Neculai Radulian Mircea Mărmureanu Gheorghe Grecu Bogdan Academician Gr. Ștefănescu wrote in a study published in 1901 that, during the earthquake in 1738, church bells began to ring themselves. See also 1838 Vrancea earthquake, another major earthquake 100 years later in Vrancea seismic zone List of earthquakes in Romania List of earthquakes in Vrancea County List of historical earthquakes References Category:Earthquakes in Europe Category:Earthquakes in Romania Category:Earthquakes in Bulgaria Category:Earthquakes in Serbia Category:1738 in Europe Category:Disasters in Bucharest Category:1730s earthquakes Category:1738 disasters Category:18th century in Serbia Category:18th century in Moldavia Category:18th century in Wallachia