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Earthquake: Vrancea

Flinn Engdahl Region: Romania Country: Romania

Date and Time: 30.05.1990 10:40:06 UTC

Epicenter: 45.85° N 26.66° E WGS84

Focal Depth: 89km

Mb: 6.4 ML: 6.6

Ms: 6.78 Mw: 6.9

Mo: 3E+19Nm Intensity:

Fault Mechanism: thrust

Earthquake Reference: Ambraseys N., P. Smit, R. Berardi, D. Rinaldis, F. Cotton, C. Berge (2000): Dissemination of

European Strong-Motion Data. CD-ROM collection, European Commission, DGXII, Science,

Research and Development, Bruxelles, Belgium

Last Revision: 15.06.2000

Acceleration Time Histories:

total: 6 records Dist. [km] PGA [m/s*s]

Station Name Coordinates Geology D Fault. Horizontal Vertical

Vrancioaia 45.866 N 26.727 E rock 5 8 0.292 0.116

Istrita 45.138 N 26.545 E - 80 72 0.191 0.081

Birlad 46.266 N 27.626 E - 88 56 0.266 0.21

Bucharest-Building Research 44.441 N 26.161 E alluvium 162 157 0.527 0.249

Iasi 47.193 N 27.562 E - 165 141 0.405 -

Cernavoda 44.314 N 28.032 E - 202 183 0.190 0.089

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