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The November 10, 1940 Vrancea earthquake—a remarkable seismic event in the recent history of Eastern Europe. Over the past 200 years, it was the strongest of all that occurred in the Vrancea focal zone. Macroseismic manifestation of the November 10, 1940 earthquake is of great interest, based on the possibility of a repetition of such events in the first half of the 21 century. The collected data about the earthquake November 10, 1940 proved to be very useful in seismic hazard assessment in South-Eastern Europe. This devastating event served also as a pretext to organize systematic seismological observations in the Carpathian region. 75 years have passed since the event happened, but so far, no complete study has been conducted within the East-European Platform. In the present work, we collected and analyzed anew all available macroseismic data to the northeast of the epicenter, up to the limits of the event manifestation. As a result of analysis and generalization of macroseismic information contained in the special literature, the new table with intensity values for the territory of Moldova, Ukraine and Russia was made, and the isoseismal map of this earthquake was drawn. The macroseismic effect for the Eastern Europe was compared with January 23, 1838, March 4, 1977, August 30, 1986 and May 30, 1990 earthquakes. The comparison of the intensity areas for the strongest earthquakes of the Vrancea region was performed.
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Stepanenco, N., Cardanet, V. (2016). Macroseismic Effect of the November 10, 1940 Earthquake in the Territory of Moldova, Ukraine and Russia. In: Vacareanu, R., Ionescu, C. (eds) The 1940 Vrancea Earthquake. Issues, Insights and Lessons Learnt. Springer Natural Hazards. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29844-3_7
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