Lyulin Stamenov/Sofia Echo
The earthquakes in the Plovdiv region last week
mostly damaged the roofs of buildings.
The earthquakes which hit Plovdiv last week left 614 houses with serious damages, according to an estimation by the Civil Defence State Agency delegation.
Plovdiv has not been shaken by any more tremors for seven days now and Rumiana Glavcheva of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences’ Geophysics Institute’s seismology centre said the quakes were fading away. The last tremor, on Friday, was registered with an epicentre near the village of Krumovo. It measured 2.7 on the Richter scale.
“This territory, with the villages around Plovdiv, has felt the quakes as a disaster,” said Lilia Kostadinova, spokesperson from the Civil Defence State Agency.
After an inspection last week, led by the Permanent Commission for Cataclysms and Catastrophes to the Council of Ministers, the total damages were calculated. The amount of 411,000 leva will be needed from the special state fund in case of disasters to restore the cracked houses and damages resulting from the earthquakes.
The village of Krumovo has 3,500 residents and 980 houses, 514 of which were damaged. The town of Assenovgrad has also felt the tremors with damages to 119 houses, churches, administrative buildings, manufacturing facilities and schools.
The mayor of Assenovgrad, Svetozar Shumanov, said that the most serious problem to be solved was the damage of two schools, Dolni Voden and Saint Kiril I Metodii. “We need to decide whether it is safe for school children to get back into the building,” he said.
Altogether, 864 houses and buildings were damaged in the territories around Plovdiv by the quakes. The old town of Plovdiv suffered two cracked buildings, which were too old to resist the shock. The villages of Katunica ended up with 91 houses damaged and Karadjovo with eight buildings. The village of Yagodovo will be repairing 67 houses and administrative buildings.
“There is an option for an enlargement of the money to be spent on the repair and it will be gained from the emergency fund,” Kostadinova said.
Plovdiv has not been shaken by any more tremors for seven days now and Rumiana Glavcheva of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences’ Geophysics Institute’s seismology centre said the quakes were fading away. The last tremor, on Friday, was registered with an epicentre near the village of Krumovo. It measured 2.7 on the Richter scale.
“This territory, with the villages around Plovdiv, has felt the quakes as a disaster,” said Lilia Kostadinova, spokesperson from the Civil Defence State Agency.
After an inspection last week, led by the Permanent Commission for Cataclysms and Catastrophes to the Council of Ministers, the total damages were calculated. The amount of 411,000 leva will be needed from the special state fund in case of disasters to restore the cracked houses and damages resulting from the earthquakes.
The village of Krumovo has 3,500 residents and 980 houses, 514 of which were damaged. The town of Assenovgrad has also felt the tremors with damages to 119 houses, churches, administrative buildings, manufacturing facilities and schools.
The mayor of Assenovgrad, Svetozar Shumanov, said that the most serious problem to be solved was the damage of two schools, Dolni Voden and Saint Kiril I Metodii. “We need to decide whether it is safe for school children to get back into the building,” he said.
Altogether, 864 houses and buildings were damaged in the territories around Plovdiv by the quakes. The old town of Plovdiv suffered two cracked buildings, which were too old to resist the shock. The villages of Katunica ended up with 91 houses damaged and Karadjovo with eight buildings. The village of Yagodovo will be repairing 67 houses and administrative buildings.
“There is an option for an enlargement of the money to be spent on the repair and it will be gained from the emergency fund,” Kostadinova said.
