The bout of earthquakes which has shaken Bulgaria might not be over.
Rumiana Glavcheva of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences’ Geophysics Institute’s seismology centre said more might be expected.
There were 18 earthquakes in the country between April 5 and 9, with Plovdiv being hardest hit.
“We cannot say for sure what the seismic zone around Sofia can offer in the coming weeks but usually quakes like these do not stop with one or two appearances only,” she said.
The last earthquake epicentred 130km southeast of Sofia was registered at 7.38am on Monday. It measured 3.4 on the Richter scale and was felt mainly in the Plovdiv region. No injuries or material damage was reported after the quakes.
The strongest one, of 4 on the Richter scale, was epicentered in the village of Krumovo (Plovdiv region) and occurred at 4.14pm.
No one was injured but the quake collapsed chimneys, cracked walls and broke windows.
Several residents of the village of Krumovo spent the night in the open near their cars or nearby greenhouses in the field, the Civil Defence State Agency reported.
Krumovo, which is near the epicentre of the quakes which shook the region on Monday and Tuesday, has more than 3,500 residents. There are 980 houses in the village and most of them have been damaged by the quakes.
The damage to 26 buildings in Assenovgrad and its Dolni Voden neighbourhood, as well as to houses in other population centres in the area, have already been described and evaluated.
A series of earthquakes shook the city of Plovdiv and the nearby villages on Friday and continued for three days in a row, though with a decreasing magnitude. Three expert committees were appointed to calculate the damages in the most affected locations – Krumovo, Yagodovo, Assenovgrad.
“The most serious damage will be compensated for through the special state fund,” the secretary of the Permanent Commission for Cataclysms and Catastrophes to the Council of Ministers Andrei Ivanov said.
A quake measuring 2.9 on the Richter scale was registered at 3.05pm on Sunday in Plovdiv just a few minutes after Deputy Prime Minister Nikolai Vassilev visited the village of Krumovo, which is the worst hit by the earthquakes in that area.
This was the fourth quake on Sunday. The other three were registered at 6.47am (2.7 on the Richter scale), at 11.47am (magnitude 2.7), and at 11.50am (magnitude 2.8).
Glavcheva rejected the reported opinion of some of her colleagues, who were quoted on Monday as saying that earthquakes were more prevalent in spring. Earthquakes were unpredictable, she said.
Rumiana Glavcheva of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences’ Geophysics Institute’s seismology centre said more might be expected.
There were 18 earthquakes in the country between April 5 and 9, with Plovdiv being hardest hit.
“We cannot say for sure what the seismic zone around Sofia can offer in the coming weeks but usually quakes like these do not stop with one or two appearances only,” she said.
The last earthquake epicentred 130km southeast of Sofia was registered at 7.38am on Monday. It measured 3.4 on the Richter scale and was felt mainly in the Plovdiv region. No injuries or material damage was reported after the quakes.
The strongest one, of 4 on the Richter scale, was epicentered in the village of Krumovo (Plovdiv region) and occurred at 4.14pm.
No one was injured but the quake collapsed chimneys, cracked walls and broke windows.
Several residents of the village of Krumovo spent the night in the open near their cars or nearby greenhouses in the field, the Civil Defence State Agency reported.
Krumovo, which is near the epicentre of the quakes which shook the region on Monday and Tuesday, has more than 3,500 residents. There are 980 houses in the village and most of them have been damaged by the quakes.
The damage to 26 buildings in Assenovgrad and its Dolni Voden neighbourhood, as well as to houses in other population centres in the area, have already been described and evaluated.
A series of earthquakes shook the city of Plovdiv and the nearby villages on Friday and continued for three days in a row, though with a decreasing magnitude. Three expert committees were appointed to calculate the damages in the most affected locations – Krumovo, Yagodovo, Assenovgrad.
“The most serious damage will be compensated for through the special state fund,” the secretary of the Permanent Commission for Cataclysms and Catastrophes to the Council of Ministers Andrei Ivanov said.
A quake measuring 2.9 on the Richter scale was registered at 3.05pm on Sunday in Plovdiv just a few minutes after Deputy Prime Minister Nikolai Vassilev visited the village of Krumovo, which is the worst hit by the earthquakes in that area.
This was the fourth quake on Sunday. The other three were registered at 6.47am (2.7 on the Richter scale), at 11.47am (magnitude 2.7), and at 11.50am (magnitude 2.8).
Glavcheva rejected the reported opinion of some of her colleagues, who were quoted on Monday as saying that earthquakes were more prevalent in spring. Earthquakes were unpredictable, she said.
