Rumania escapes high toll
NZPA-Reuter. Bucharest
Rumania, the poor man of eastern Europe, appears to have escaped lightly from an earthquake which caused casualties and damage in neighbouring Soviet Moldavia. *
Western diplomats and local people said life carried on near normal in spite of initial fears that the tremor was a repeat of a devastating ’quake which killed 1500 in 1977. Rumanian radio and television said the ’quake was 6.5 on the Richter scale and its epicentre 180 km north-east of Bucharest, near the town of Focsani. An official statement said the tremor at 12.28 a.m. on Sunday (Rumanian time) lasted for 50 seconds, of which “the principle shock” was 12 seconds.
In Moscow, the main Soviet evening television news programme showed bulldozers and excavators clearing large amounts of rubble from the streets in Kishinev, the Moldavian capital.
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