Nearly 6 points: Ukraine earthquake

In Romania there was an earthquake felt and residents of some regions of Ukraine.
PE was recorded around 2:00 Saturday, September 24, writes up, citing European-Mediterranean seismological centre.
The magnitude of the earthquake reached 5.6 points.
The epicenter of earthquake was located 153 km North of Bucharest. The earthquake lies at a depth of 94 km.
Data on victims or destructions.
The users in socialnih networks reported that a fairly strong tremors were felt in Kiev, Dnipro, Odessa, Kherson, Zaporozhye, Krivoy Rog, Vinnitsa and other cities of Ukraine.
The State service for emergency situations said that the night of the 24th of September was fixed push earthquake measuring 3-4 on the Richter scale in the Odessa region.
At the same time, the Agency has not confirmed the information about seismostability in Kiev.


Judging by the reviews of Kiev, the earthquake has affected virtually all areas of the city — about the ringing chandeliers, rocking and shaking the walls unsubscribed residents of hem, Centre, Shulyavka, Obolon, Solomenka, Vinogradar, Kurenevka, Kiev and Kiev district. In addition there were reports of tremors in the suburbs of Kiev, Irpen, Bucha, Brovary, as well as other cities — Odessa, Lutsk, Kropiwnicki, Vinnitsa.

To receive comments of the SSES on the power of the earthquake in the capital and other cities have not yet succeeded. But earlier, seismologists had warned that Ukraine may feel the tremors from the earthquake under the mountains of Vrancea in Romania, which occurred on the morning of September 22.

"The seismic activity recorded at a very great depth of 134 km, so the tremors could be felt throughout the territory of Ukraine", — says Alexander Kinzer, Deputy Director on scientific work, candidate of physico-mathematical Sciences of the Institute of Geophysics of NAS of Ukraine.

Recall that in early August in Mariupol, an earthquake of magnitude 5.7 on the Richter scale.

Over the last 250 years earthquake in Kiev was recorded in 1790, 1793, 1802, 1829, 1838, 1908, 1940, 1977, 1986, 1990, 2004 .

27 October 2004 "jolted" by four points, 30 may 1990 — 5 points.
Until recently, Kyiv was not included in seismically dangerous zone, now these standards are revised. The old building was carried out with the expectation of 5 points, such shocks are not dangerous, the collapse will not. Now houses higher than 25 floors (about 80-100 m), a few are considered especially dangerous objects, so they laid a large supply of durability. A six-point shocks they will certainly survive, but can cause cracks in the partitions. After all, the higher the house, the large vibrations on the upper floors. But timber frame houses withstand the load.

Thus, the tremors in 6 points for Kiev is an acceptable risk. The danger in the first place only stalinkas and Khrushchev, to which the above mentioned coefficient is not applied