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On this day, in 1979, more than one hundred people were killed in the earthquake, which was hit by Montenegro, and more than 80,000 remained without houses.
Early morning on April 15, 1979, sleeping Montenegro from sleep awakened Alarm Nagled on seven degrees Richter's scale. A little slightly after seven hours, April 15, 1979, he entered history.
The first reporting that visited the world after the earthquake in Montenegro was: "The only heaven" and said the journalist of the National Television of Montenegro this morning.
The epicenter of the devastating earthquake in 1979 was in the Adriatic Sea, between Ulcinj and Bar, at a distance of 15 km from the coast. In this earthquake, 101 people lost their lives in Montenegro and 35 in Albania. Cities were killed: Ulcinj, Bar, Petrovac, Budva, Tivat, Kotor, Risan and Herceg Novi, and 250 settlements were destroyed. It was destroyed by a huge part of modern hotel facilities in the region, 53 health facilities, 570 facilities of social and children's protection, 240 school facilities were damaged.
Large damage were on the road network - about 350 km of main and 200 km of regional roads were damaged. One specific events of soil caused by the earthquake were the appearances of liquefaction (soil flow), landslides and wedded.
Stravish shivers lasted very short, but the consequences were catastrophic - 101 dead and 1,700 injured, of which 159 are more difficult. The earthquake left a desolation behind him and the unrecognizable picture of Montenegrin cities on the coast, because the primary region due to the proximity of the epicenter was the most refused earthquake.
We will never be able to settle many human lives, but we will regain the beauty of the Mediterranean Prix in this small country, which belongs to the newspapers in those days and promised the new and restore the stone back in Kotor, Budvaese and Ulcinj facades. That is why Lekelek do not break our up and our sea, but a male response to the hands of the help from the entire Yugoslavia is already heard. And from the world. Montenegro will become phoenix. When I can, people can, I can, "that was the victory that year. And new hotels, new buildings, new houses, new schools have begun.
In 1979, the April Earthquake will be remembered for the sacrifice and solidarity of our people, which then more than ever showed that it is stronger than any distress.
People were simply stronger than nature. However, organized rescue was not in the first moments. It could not have been because people were endangered, and the protection plans of natural disasters, which we gave a lot of attention unavailable.
The question is and how usable they would be because they were starting that the earthquake will affect only the area of one, possibly two municipalities, and that the help and cooperation will provide them with others. Unfortunately, eight municipalities were affected in the April earthquake and, effective and organized cooperation was excluded. However, the Republic Headquarters of Civil Protection was quickly operated, but also the structures in municipalities.
On the ground of Montenegro, strong earthquakes were recorded in 1667, 1853, 1931, but April 1979 was one of the stronger ones, whose magnitude in the hearth was seven degrees Richter's scale. Some seismologists classify an earthquake from 1979 in order to an earthquake from 361, when they sunk some settlements in this part of the Adriatic.
The renovation lasted for ten years. All republics of the then Yugoslavia were in a solidarity to participate in the renovation. The Law on Restoration of the Montenegrin Primorje in the Federal Assembly was also adopted.
Source - "POBJEDA"
