Risky Cities: Red Equals Danger In Bucharest, Europe’s Earthquake Capital Cities

These led to a dramatic lower in Ceauşescu’s recognition and culminated in his overthrow and execution in the bloody Romanian Revolution of 1989. In August 1914, when Planet War I broke out, Romania declared neutrality. Two years later, beneath the stress of the Allies , in August 1916 it joined the Allies. As the cognomen ‘The Impaler’ suggests, his practice...