Why Earthquakes Threaten Two Major European Cities: Istanbul and Bucharest (original) (raw)

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Hazard from increasing the risk of the numbers of earthquakes for the European economy growth in the next 50 years

This article presents a proposition to be considered for building norms as an expected result of the movement of the African plate under the European plate, which is an increasing source of serious damage from earthquakes in West, Central and Eastern Europe. The African plate has been moving under the European plate for the last 30 years, generating a number of earthquakes over Southeastern Europe. That generates a concentration of tensions in the neighboring Eurasian plate. In 1977, one of the strongest earthquakes in the eastern section of Central Europe (7.2 M) (Dziennik Polski, 1977) occurred in Romania. The next ones happened within the last 10 years. In 2004, earthquakes occurred in Poland and in the Kaliningrad oblast of Russia (4.4 M and 5.2 M). These events and observations suggest a change in some norms for buildings to protect them from the effects of an earthquake.

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