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The Vrancea seismogenic zone denotes a peculiar source of seismic hazard which represents a major concern in Europe, especially to Romania and neighbouring regions from Bulgaria, Serbia and Republic of Moldova. The strong seismic events that can occur in this area can generate the most destructive effects in Romania and may affect high-risk manmade structures such as nuclear power plants, chemical plants, large dams and pipelines located within a wide area including the Northern zone from the Republic of Bulgaria and the SW of the Moldavia Republic. A major part of the information for determining the design basis earthquakes consists of a complete set of historical earthquake data. Therefore, it is necessary that the available historical records to be collected, extending as far back in time as possible. Most of these historical records will be of descriptive nature, including such information as the number of houses damaged or destroyed, the behaviour of population etc. But from such information a measure of the intensity scale value of each earthquake in modern macroseismic intensity scale values may be determined. During the past project “Bridging the gap between seismology and earthquake engineering: from the seismicity of Romania towards a refined implementation of seismic action EN1998-1 in earthquake resistant design of buildings (BIGSEES)”, the authors developed the macroseismic intensity map of Romania by using newly compiled information about the damages experienced by 115 churches and monasteries after 10 strong earthquakes (Mw > 6.9) occurred in Vrancea zone starting with XVth century.
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This study was performed in the frame of the projects BIGSEES (contract 72/2012) and PN 16-35-02-02 (contract 21N/2016). The financial support of SEER project number PN-III-P2-P2.1-PED-2016-1014 is gratefully acknowledged.
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Marmureanu, G., Vacareanu, R., Cioflan, C.O., Ionescu, C., Toma-Danila, D. (2018). Historical Earthquakes: New Intensity Data Points Using Complementary Data from Churches and Monasteries. In: Vacareanu, R., Ionescu, C. (eds) Seismic Hazard and Risk Assessment. Springer Natural Hazards. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74724-8_7
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