[media id=263 width=610 height=340]<\/strong><\/p>\n An official who inspected the bridge after the occurrence said \u201cNot even the paint cracked on the bridge\u201d.<\/p>\n Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev, has already ordered a probe on what went wrong during the planning or building of the expensive bridge which was paid for with state funds.<\/p>\n The wave like stumps reached approximately 3 feet high (1 metre), but not one was seriously injured.<\/p>\n One motorist who drove over the bridge during the strange occurrence wrote \u201cI was driving to my country house when my car started bouncing like a ball, I thought something was wrong with the suspension,\u201d on an Internet forum.<\/p>\n Some officials thought the bridge might have wobbled due to a small earthquake but that theory has since been squashed as no Seismic activity was reported by the country\u2019s earthquake centre.<\/p>\n However Oleg Belozyorov the Deputy Transportation Minister said \u201cExperts agree that it is the dynamics of the air, when wind gusts hit a certain resonance zone, they cause these kinds of consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n The bridge which cost $396 million was designed and built in a way which is earthquake resistant and resistant towards floods but such a problem must have not been foreseen by the designers of the bridge.<\/p>\n Vladimir Parshin, Chief engineer of Transmost, which is a bridge construction company also said that the most likely reason for the such a problem would be high speed winds.<\/p>\n Parshin who spoke to The Moscow Times said \u201cThe spans in the Volgograd bridge are rather long, so theoretically it could be less wind-resistant than other similar structures, in any case, this sounds like a precedent for this type of bridge.\u201d<\/p>\n There are two other ways of crossing the bridge which are by a ferry and a bridge which is Approximately 60 miles away.<\/p>\n It has been reported that the bridge had been closed since Thursday, and will remain closed until the cause of the accident is found.<\/p>\n Write your thoughts and comments bellow<\/strong><\/p>\n Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 9)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 19)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Russian bridge wobbles like waves : A newly opened bridge in Russia has caused problems for travelers after the bridge started to wobble when strong winds occurred in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,17,118,59],"tags":[8584,8585,8591,8596,8594,7412,599,8583,8595,8593,8587,8592,8590,8588,8589,8586],"class_list":["post-6422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","category-europe","category-hot","category-video-gallery","tag-bridge","tag-bridge-shaking","tag-bridge-volga-river","tag-bridge-wave-effect","tag-deputy-transportation-minister","tag-dmitry-medvedev","tag-russia","tag-russia-bridge","tag-russia-bridge-wave","tag-russia-president","tag-video-of-russian-bridge","tag-video-russian-bridge","tag-volga-river","tag-volgograd","tag-volgograd-bridge","tag-wave-effects-on-bridge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The newly built seven kilometers long bridge on the Volga River in Volgograd, was opened approximately seven months ago but on Thursday a strange occurrence happened when the bridge\u2019s asphalt started to go up and down like a wave.<\/h2>\n
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Onlookers have said that the sight was extraordinary as the road was going up and down in a wave like manor but for some reason or another, the bridge did not collapse and did not seem to have any serious damage.<\/p>\n