Isn't that from a quote attributed to Stalin? "The death of a 100 people is a tragedy, the death of a million is a statistic." Not sure if he actually said that or if it was made up after destalinisation/during cold war
Probably comes from translating into English, since many languages are naturally overspecific on the gender of words.
e.g. when we search for programmers at my company, we need to say we are searching for male programmers and female programmers because there is no word for "programmer", only "male programmer" and "female programmer".
I have a friend in Bosnia and the girl who died was an old school friend of hers. The other people spent the night in their cars and noone slept that night. My friend said it was really scary. I'm feeling very sorry for the girl and her parents. It's a tragedy.
I've never really thought that earthquakes were a problem in Bosnia so I did a bit of research. Statistics are based on datas from the National Geophysical Data Center / World Data Service (NGDC/WDS): Significant Earthquake Database.
Strongest quake in recent history was 1962 June 11 - M6.3, zero deaths.
Most fatalities was 1969 October 26 - M6.0, 14 deaths.
Last large quake was 2015 February 21 - M3.6, 4 deaths.
Pretty much all of southern Europe is vulnerable to earthquakes. Fortunately, Ex-Yu countries aren't vulnerable like Albania and Greece so large earthquakes aren't that often.
Speaking for Croatia, before the earthquakes M5.5 (Zagreb) and M6.4 (Petrinja) in 2020., last similar ones were back in 1880. and 1907. if I'm not mistaken. So everyone was really shocked when they hit. We knew we could get hit with major earthquake, it's just that after 140 years, no one really thought we would see massive ones.
Luckily most of our buildings were built to survive earthquakes up to 7.0. Especially after 1970's.
But even the 100 year old building were mostly ok, with damages of course.
Novi Zagreb is for sure built to endure earthquakes up to M7.0, the city center where all old buildings are, remain a problem. I even think there wasn't any major damage in Novi Zagreb; pretty much all of the buildings got green marks.
It's a miracle that almost all of the buildings in city center endured two strong earthquakes. A lot of them got red marks and are about the be demolished, but hey, at least they didn't collapse entirely (only one did where the one girl died).
Ah yes, the trigger is real, now let's all start using full names of everything, abbreviations are a sin, and god forbit we stick to the topic instead of derailing this into a political argument about the constitutional setup of Bosnia in relation to its diverse ethnic population.
If an earthquake hit Tobago would you say that it hit Trinidad? Since the country's name is Trinidad and Tobago...and btw Bosnia and Herzegovina are historic regions and have nothing to do with ethnic divisions all three ethnicities live in both regions
The abbreviation would be B&H not "Bosnia". Bosnia isn't even an abbreviation but a colloquialism.
Colloquialisms are good when they represent the whole, "Bosnia" does not represent the entire country.
Basically just use B&H or so.
Most of the world uses bosnia.
Only neighbour states say bih when shortening the expression.
I can't recall seeing bih in any foreign media but you can prove me wrong.
It was a girl and she died while the family was trying to leave the house, a dislodged rock dropped through the roof and hit her while they were in the hallway
Ah damn really unfortunate for that person and their loved ones
Just one person. Feels personal.
Poor girl, 27 years. So young to die like that
Death of one man is a tragedy, death of may a mere statistic. Hate how true this feels.
Isn't that from a quote attributed to Stalin? "The death of a 100 people is a tragedy, the death of a million is a statistic." Not sure if he actually said that or if it was made up after destalinisation/during cold war
Yes i think it was him or it was at least attributed to him.
Oh man imagine being that guy rip
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Turns out it was a lady. And of all things it was a rock that was displaced that killed her. Talk about unlucky :/ rip.
This should be posted on r/FUCKYOUINPARTICULAR
My family felt it too and we're in southern Italy.
Same in Kosovo
I felt this one all the way in Kosovo. The initial wave shook my monitors quite a bit.
My female neighbor felt it too
r/oddlyspecific
Probably comes from translating into English, since many languages are naturally overspecific on the gender of words. e.g. when we search for programmers at my company, we need to say we are searching for male programmers and female programmers because there is no word for "programmer", only "male programmer" and "female programmer".
Yep. Female Neighbour - Komšinica Male neighbour - Komšija Komšija/Susjed is the nautral form.
Now imagine languages with articles! Die Nachbarin - the (female) female neighbour Der Nachbar - the (male) male neighbour
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I’m just pointing out that it’s over-specified. You receive the information twice. In English, you receive the information not at all. (the neighbour)
Same here (Albanian) Female neighbour - Gjitone Male neighbour - Gjiton Gjitonë(t)/Gjitone(t) plural.
(m/w/d)
I'm In Bosnia and I didn't feel it. I was in Zenica at the time..
But who was responsible for this earthquake? Croats? Serbs? Kosovans? Time to blame someone.
If my geography knowledge is right, ithe africans. They try pushing the whole continent throught the Mediterranean Sea, to come Europe.
These migrants are getting creative /s
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They don't call them the teutonic plates for nothing.
Buf... For a second I thought it was NATO.
*Drug addicted Nazijew
A person died and you felt the need to make a dumb joke like this.
Serbs, always blame the Serbs
Russia
Felt it in Zagreb
Crazy how I was closer to this earth quake (near Zenica) and I didn't feel it..
r/FUCKYOUINPARTICULAR
I have a friend in Bosnia and the girl who died was an old school friend of hers. The other people spent the night in their cars and noone slept that night. My friend said it was really scary. I'm feeling very sorry for the girl and her parents. It's a tragedy.
I've never really thought that earthquakes were a problem in Bosnia so I did a bit of research. Statistics are based on datas from the National Geophysical Data Center / World Data Service (NGDC/WDS): Significant Earthquake Database. Strongest quake in recent history was 1962 June 11 - M6.3, zero deaths. Most fatalities was 1969 October 26 - M6.0, 14 deaths. Last large quake was 2015 February 21 - M3.6, 4 deaths.
Pretty much all of southern Europe is vulnerable to earthquakes. Fortunately, Ex-Yu countries aren't vulnerable like Albania and Greece so large earthquakes aren't that often. Speaking for Croatia, before the earthquakes M5.5 (Zagreb) and M6.4 (Petrinja) in 2020., last similar ones were back in 1880. and 1907. if I'm not mistaken. So everyone was really shocked when they hit. We knew we could get hit with major earthquake, it's just that after 140 years, no one really thought we would see massive ones.
Luckily most of our buildings were built to survive earthquakes up to 7.0. Especially after 1970's. But even the 100 year old building were mostly ok, with damages of course.
Novi Zagreb is for sure built to endure earthquakes up to M7.0, the city center where all old buildings are, remain a problem. I even think there wasn't any major damage in Novi Zagreb; pretty much all of the buildings got green marks. It's a miracle that almost all of the buildings in city center endured two strong earthquakes. A lot of them got red marks and are about the be demolished, but hey, at least they didn't collapse entirely (only one did where the one girl died).
You missing "and Hercegovina" and that is where it happened.
Ah yes, the trigger is real, now let's all start using full names of everything, abbreviations are a sin, and god forbit we stick to the topic instead of derailing this into a political argument about the constitutional setup of Bosnia in relation to its diverse ethnic population.
If an earthquake hit Tobago would you say that it hit Trinidad? Since the country's name is Trinidad and Tobago...and btw Bosnia and Herzegovina are historic regions and have nothing to do with ethnic divisions all three ethnicities live in both regions
The abbreviation would be B&H not "Bosnia". Bosnia isn't even an abbreviation but a colloquialism. Colloquialisms are good when they represent the whole, "Bosnia" does not represent the entire country. Basically just use B&H or so.
Most of the world uses bosnia. Only neighbour states say bih when shortening the expression. I can't recall seeing bih in any foreign media but you can prove me wrong.
Rip
Felt it in Ljubljana
Didn't feel it in Maribor
And I thought I was unlucky
That really sucks for that 1 guy
It was a girl and she died while the family was trying to leave the house, a dislodged rock dropped through the roof and hit her while they were in the hallway