thousands of people in the large cities lost
their homes and families in the
earthquake. About 2,000 people were
killed as a large number of tall buildings
crashed.
As experts say, due to the bend in the
mountain chain (the Carpathians take a
sharp turn about 200 km from the capital
of Romania, where two tectonic plates
collided millions of years ago) seismic
activity is likely to intensify now and then.
It is a geological phenomenon one must
learn to live with and be prepared for.
Turkey, Greece and Italy have also
experienced it along the years.
It is a feeling I would never like to
experience again.
For me, it was just a dramatic event
which caused many later nightmares. Yet,
In the meantime, Romanian
scientists aided by Japanese earthquake
specialists are trying to find the
explanation of the 200-tremor series in
Galati county.