An earthquake with a magnitude of 3.5 on the Richter scale rattled the Bulgarian capital Sofia on Friday morning, bringing slight material damages to buildings in the center of the capital. Photo by BGNES
The 3.5 earthquake that shook Sofia on Friday has caused the falling of four chimneys in the Bulgarian capital.
National security teams are checking for other damages on the territory of Sofia.
The phone traffic has also been interrupted as a result of the rattling.
On Friday at 10:11 an earthquake with a magnitude of 3.5 on the Richter scale rattled the Bulgarian capital.
The epicenter has been in Sofia, at the 8th km of the "Tsarigradsko Shosse" Boulevard towards the Sofia Airport.
The director of the National Geophysics Institute at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Nikolay Miloshev, has explained that earthquakes below 4.5 on the Richter scale are considered weak and they usually do not cause material damages.
According to the European Mediterranean Seismological Center, the depth of the earthquake has been 2 km.
The National Seismology Institute has announced that the earthquakes that shook Sofia on Friday were two. They have been registered as 3.5 and 3.3 on the Richter scale and both had their epicenters in Sofia.
This is third earthquake in Sofia for the past two weeks.
On Thursday, an earthquake with a magnitude of 2.5 on the Richter scale was felt around Sofia. On Friday early morning another quake hit southwest from Sofia but was not felt on the territory of the country.
On August 27, an earthquake of 2.8 on the Richter scale shook the Bulgarian capital. It was felt stronger because its epicenter was shallow and close to Sofia.