Romania
INCDFP RA
The National Institute for Earth Physics - NIEP is an organization for research and development in earth sciences, coordinated by the Romanian Ministry for Education and Research. Structure of the NIEP is 6 departments, 34 researchers (18 PhD), 56 technical people and 16 PhD students. It has a wide background in earth sciences research (earth physics), with focus on seismic source, seismotectonics, seismic hazard assessment, site effects and microzonation, engineering seismology, nonlinear seismology, lithosphere structure and dynamics and assessment and mitigation of seismic risk. In this project will be directly involved two departments: the Romanian Seismic Network and the National Data Center. In this project will be directly involved two departments: the Romanian Seismic Network and the National Data Center. The NIEP’s infrastructure that provides the data that will be used in this project as input for the hazard assessment consists in four types of networks: a real-time seismic network, a free-field strong motion network, a GPS/GNSS Leica Network and a real-time geomagnetic network. NIEP operates a real-time seismic network consisting of 95 stations: (i) 10 of them are equipped with short-period seismometers (one second natural period), (ii) 73 real-time broad-band (BB) stations, (iii) one seismic array consists of 10 seismic stations, 9 short-period stations (SP) vertical sensors (GS-21res) and one station equipped with BB 3-component sensor (KS 54000), (www.infp.ro). NIEP also operates a free-field strong motion network consisting of 46 K2 seismic stations for recording the strong and moderate Vrancea earthquakes.
Contribution to the PP.
INCDFP RA will contribute to WP8 in Task 8.2 Stakeholder promotion and interaction: data providers and users, Task 8.4 EPOS promotional activities. In WP6 INCDFP RA will participate to various WGs (4 p/m).
Principal personnel involved.
Constantin Ionescu,Tehnical Director of the National Institute for Earth Physics and Head of National Seismic Network Department. Education: Faculty of Automated and Computing Systems, Technical University of Bucharest, 1988. Expertise in: geophysical equipment, data acquisition in geophysics, seismic network management, seismic data analysis and processing.
Gheorghe Marmureanu, General Manager of the National Institute for Earth Physics and Professor at Faculty of Physics (lecture “Hazard and Seismic Risk “-master classes and Ph. D. guidance in Physics), University of Bucharest since 2000. His research interests are: engineering seismology; generation of artificial earthquakes (Markov processes with 4 dimensions); nonlinear behavior of the soil with main application in hazard assessment and mitigation of seismic risk.
Mircea Radulian, Scientific Director of the National Institute for Earth Physics. Education:MSc, University of Bucharest - Faculty of Physics (1979) PhD in physics of the Earth at the Institute for Atomic Physics, Bucharest (Romania) (1999). Key research interests: Seismology, Seismicity of Romania, Seismic source, Earthquake Hazard and Risk, Microzonation, Attenuation of seismic waves.
Mihaela Popa, Head of Romanian Data Centre department. Key research interests: Seismology, Seismicity of Romania, Seismic source, Earthquake Hazard and Risk, Attenuation of seismic waves.
Alexandru Marmureanu, Researcher. Key research interests: Seismology, Earthquake Hazard and Risk, Earthquake Early Warning.
Carmen Cioflan, Researcher, Key research interests: Seismology, Earthquake Hazard and Risk.
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