Aurelian Pantea

pantea@infp.infp.ro

+40 1 493-0118

+40 1 493-0052

National Institute for Earth Physics, Seismological Department, PO Box MG-2, 76900, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania

http://www.infp.ro/

Friedemann Wenzel, Mihnea C. Oncescu, Michael Baur, Frank Fiedrich, Constantin Ionescu, An Early Warning System for Bucharest, Seismological Research Letters, Vol. 70, No. 2, March/April 1999.

The first seismic instruments were installed in Romania as early as 1902. This instruments were installed by St. Hepites the director of the Meteorological Institute of Romania. Then there were also founded 320 macroseismic stations all over the country. The Bucharest seismic station consisted of two Bosch horizontal seismographs that made history by recording one of the five earthquakes used by H. Jeffreys to prove the occurrence of intermediate earthquakes. Under the coordination of the Seismic Observatory of Bucharest, the seismic network was extended in 1935 and after the occurrence of the strong earthquake of 1940 (Time=01:39; Lat. = 45.70N; Long = 26.60 E; h = 133 km; M = 7.4; I0 = IX ). Since 1961 the seismological researches were carried out at the Center of Geophysical Researches. Between 1970 and 1976 the seismic network and the seismological staff belonged to the Institute of Geology and Geophysics. In February 1977 the Center for Earth Physics and Seismology (CFPS) was founded. The institute belonged to the Central Institute of Physics, which was set up to coordinate physics research in Romania. After the strong earthquake of 1977, CFPS installed a radio telemetered network of 15 seismic stations, benefiting of a PNUD-UNESCO support. In parallel a strong motion network of 15 accelerometers was installed. A continuous digital acquisition of the seismological data has been carried out by CFPS since 1991. A new digital strong motion network has been set up in 1995-1997 in the framework of a Romanian-German cooperation. In 1994 the institute was renamed as the National Institute for Earth Physics and since 1996 it is directly coordinated by the National Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation (formerly, Ministry of Research and Technology).

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