The earthquake caused the collapse of 17 five-story Reinforced Concrete apartment buildings (of the 1-447C series), with 80 apartments each (1360 dwelling units), as well as 4 apartment buildings with 16 apartments each (64 dwelling units), the town hall, the administration building, a heat generating building, one of the two wings of the school building and a number of shops. The deaths occurred in the 22 residential buildings due to the time of occurrence (00:03 am local time).