A 6.7 magnitude earthquake shakes cities in Bulgaria (video)

10/30/2020 Bulgaria



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A 6.7 magnitude earthquake in western Turkey was felt on high floors in Sofia, Haskovo, Burgas, Plovdiv and Kazanlak at 1:51 pm

The epicenter was 50 to 60 km from the Turkish city of Izmir to the Greek island of Samos, and the distance from Sofia is about 550 km. So said the seismologist on duty at the Geophysical Institute of BAS Dragomir Dragomirov for “24 Chasa”.

This is an area where such events can be generated and there will surely be consequences. Izmir on July 29, 1999 was one of the strongest earthquakes in the region with a magnitude of more than 7, which claimed many lives and caused extensive damage. This was said by Associate Professor Petya Trifonova, Deputy Director of the Institute of Geophysics, Geodesy and Geography of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences for “24 Chasa”. She hopes that her colleagues in Turkey will tell her what happened at any time.

Thank goodness Turkey and Greece are many times more seismic than we are, added Associate Professor Trifonova.

Twitter users posted videos showing buildings collapsing in Izmir.

Earlier, a 4.1 magnitude earthquake struck the Turkish Bingol district in the eastern part of the country. It was registered by the Directorate of Emergency and Disaster Management at 11:48 local time (10:48 Bulgarian time). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.62 km.



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