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  VRANCEA County   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Vrancea is the original hearth of the poem of the Romanian’s ethnogenesis, the ballad “Miorita” — a folk poetry heard by writer Alecu Russo in the mountain village of Soveja in 1853, which he later included in a collection of folk literary writings.
Vrancea county is located in the southeast zone of Romania; lying at the bend of the Eastern Carpathians, it represents a genuine connecting link between the three great historical provinces: Moldavia, Wallachia and Transylvania.
The Vrancea county is the actives seismic zone of Romania.
clubromania.ro /romania/counties/vrancea   (1168 words)

  
 ASPECTS OF PHYSICAL MOBILITY IN BUCHAREST AND
The study samples are representative for the age group and sex structure of the population aged over 20 from Bucharest and Vrancea District.
The severe trouble of walking ability (lack or limitation of walking inside the house) was encountered in 2% of interviewed from Bucharest and in 12% of those from Vrancea.
Two personal characteristics are associated with a higher frequency of physical disability (both in Bucharest and in Vrancea): sex - female and marital status - single persons (widowed and divorced), expressing the overmorbidity specific to these subpopulations.
www.ispb.ro /conferinta/engleza/aspects_of_physical_mobility.htm   (360 words)

  
 LIFE Nature - vegetation of Vrancea Mountains
Due to its altitude and climate conditions the characteristic vegetation of the Vrancea Mountains is represented by forests (although the surface is not continuous, considering the massive deforestation from the interwar period) and secondary mountainous pastures.
In the Vrancea Mountains there are three vegetation layers: the nemoral layer, represented by montane beech forests and mixed beech and coniferous forests, the boreal layer represented by pure spruce forests or mixed coniferous forests and the subalpine layer, that dominates only the Goru Peak area.
In the Vrancea Mountains, the upper limit of the deciduous layer is situated at approx.
www.carnivoremari.ro /vnen/db84.html   (872 words)

  
 The Vrancea Region of Romania
The seismicity of Romania is mainly due to activity from within the Vrancea region: the source zone is at an intermediate depth (about 60 to 200 km), and it delivers more than 95% of the whole seismic energy for the country.
The upper limit of magnitudes for Vrancea earthquakes is in the region of M=8.0.
In spite of the encouraging outcome of the 1977 earthquake, professionals are conscious of the seismic risk affecting the country, especially in areas subjected to earthquakes from the Vrancea region.
www.geo-strategies.com /romania/vrancea.htm   (496 words)

  
 Seismotectonics of the Romania Vrancea area
The seismicity of the Romanian Vrancea area has peculiar features: (1) strong earthquakes occur at intermediate depths in a very narrow source volume; (2) the seismogenic zone is situated beneath continental crust, at the SE corner of the highly arcuate Carpathian arc; (3) no evidence for active ongoing subduction is found today.
Beneath the Vrancea region the last of these segments, which is still attached or just about to detach, gives rise for the spatially limited occurrence of seismicity.
The seismicity of the Vrancea region in the SE Carpathians is characterized by the occurrence of intermediate depth earthquakes in an amazingly narrow epicentral and hypocentral region.
www-sfb461.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de /pub/A2/Publications/kap98_fw.html   (3086 words)

  
 LIFE Nature - economic activities from Vrancea County
In the west of Vrancea County, the low area occupied by arable land, that should provide the biggest part of the swine's food, determined a constant low number of exemplars.
The number of swine in the west of Vrancea county is decreasing continually, being of 7091, after the evaluation of 9440 exemplars in the year 1992.
The main species of cynegetic interest in the west of Vrancea county are: the stag, chamois, dear, wild pork, bear, lynx, wolf, wildcat and the fox.
www.carnivoremari.ro /vnen/db86.html   (1415 words)

  
 Vrancea-Source Influence on Local Response in Bucharest   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The Vrancea region, localized in the rectangle 45o- 46 oN and 26o-27 oE, beneath the bending of Eastern Carpathian Arc, is the main source responsible of the seismic flow in the area.
The earthquakes of the Vrancea region dominate the seismic hazard of Romania and of south-eastern Europe, in general, and of Bucharest city, in particular.
Fig.1: Focal mechanism V-1 and V-2 representative for the Vrancea intermediate-depth events considered as scenario earthquakes for the modelling of the seismic input in Bucharest.
www.ictp.trieste.it /sand/buchar-carm.html   (4779 words)

  
 HISTORICAL ROUTE VRANCEA DISTRICT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The name "VRANCEA", documentarily certified as VARANCEA in 1431 is considered by specialist synonymous with the nouns "Mountain" or "Raven", suggesting the thickness of the forests-fl as a raven feather or "the hole of a cask" referring to the noun "pass/strait".
Vrancea- as a Romanian territory- holds a glorious title owning to the acts of heroism of the Romanian soldiers who died at Marasesti and the Soveja mausoleums.
Vrancea had its one individuality, it was an entity in the formal Putna district/county.
www.lcnet.it /ass/icriano/storia_storie/romania/CAPITOLUL5.HTML   (646 words)

  
 Romanian Institute for Applied Seismology
In Vrancea, earthquakes’ epicentres are situated between 44.9-46.5 degrees northern latitude and 25.5-28.0 degrees eastern longitude and give birth to events mostly at 60-180 km depth (subcrustal earthquakes).
Earthquakes born in Vrancea have tectonic origin (as 90% of all worldwide earthquakes), with bigger magnitudes than other types of seismical events.
In the epicentre (Vrancea), the sensors (seismometers and accelerometers) capture the first shock and transmit a radio signal to Bucharest, where the decision of warning is taken if the estimated magnitude exceeds 4.8 Richter.
www.fotonsas.ro /romanian_institute_for_applied_seismology.htm   (945 words)

  
 Covasna Paper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The first corresponds to the major earthquake of March 4, 1977, occurred in the upper part of the slab, while the second is associated with the major event of November 10, 1940, occurred in the lower part of the slab.
The second maximum predicted by the computed hazard map to the northwest of Vrancea (in the Transylvanian depression) and to the northeast of Vrancea (in the Moldavian platform), is not echoed in the size of the historical intensities (at least one degree of MSK intensity difference).
The peak-ground motion parameters obtained in Bucharest city (which is particularly affected by Vrancea earthquakes) are: DGA = 0.23 g, vmax = 27 cm/s, dmax = 18 cm for 1977 shock and DGA = 0.52 g, vmax = 105 cm/s, dmax = 42 cm for 1940 shock.
www.ictp.trieste.it /sand/covasna_html/covasna_paper.htm   (1325 words)

  
 Abstracts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The Vrancea zone of Romania constitutes one of the most active seismic zones in Europe, where intermediate-depth (70-200 km) earthquakes of magnitude in excess of Mw=7.0 occur with relative high frequency (~ 20 years) in a geographically restricted area within the 110° bend region of the southeastern Carpathian orogen.
Accordingly, the Vrancea zone appears to be a unique place to establish evidence for active lithospheric delamination as opposed to relic subduction.
Building on results from the Vrancea 2001 project, new geophysical experiments in the Carpathian hinterland will ultimately be critical for evaluating competing relic subduction / active delamination geodynamic models for the origin of mantle seismicity in the Vrancea zone.
geoweb.tamu.edu /seminarsevents/Diaconescuabstract2.html   (330 words)

  
 MediaON presents Business Weeks in Romania
On January the 1st 2000, the population of Vrancea was about 391,178 people, representing 1.7% from the total of 22,502,800 country's inhabitants.
The people of Vrancea know how to work but they also know to sing and dance and to enjoy their time, having holidays for earth and cattle, for harvests and flowers, enjoying their life, for life.
Although the extractive industry is still reduced in volume and value in useful substance it is obvious the growth of proportions in processing industry, centred upon metallurgy, chemistry, car construction, exploitation and wood processing, the textile industry, the ready-made clothes industry, the food and building materials industries.
www.investromania.ro /events/past/vrancea/SAS_countyfocus.htm   (493 words)

  
 vrancea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Situat in SE Carpatilor Orientali judetul Vrancea este o zona de legatura intre Moldova Transilvania si Muntenia celebru pentru podgoriile sale si pentru activitatea seismica crescuta de aici.
The Vrancea county is the activest seismic zone of Romania.
The seismic epicentre is situated in the village of Vrancioaia where there is a modern station of seismology.
www.hotelrestaurant.ro /romanian/judete/vrancea/vrancea.htm   (545 words)

  
 Customs and Traditions in Vrancea County, Romania- Local Community - Introduction
Romania is a territory marked by the 45th parallel of northern latitude, a line of equilibrium and harmony to be equally traced in the natural and human landscape.
Vrancea is a land of hot sunshine, clear blue skies.
Its people have lived here since times out of mind, their roots are as deep as those of the fir-trees and just like the fir-trees they love the sunshine of life.
www.geocities.com /petrud98/localcustoms/intro.html   (552 words)

  
 3D Gravity model of the Vrancea slab
The concentration of deeper seismicity (>70 km) in the south-east of the Carpathians reflects the break-off of the last piece of the subducting lithospheric slab beneath the Vrancea region.
In this region, the Vrancea region, earthquakes within the depth range 70--180 km are confined to an almost vertical volume that is restricted to a surface area of about 30 by 80 km (Oncescu et al.
Therefore, the red colours are representative of the geometry of the Vrancea slab.
userpage.fu-berlin.de /~hajo/Bratislava/Files/vrancea/vrancea_eg.htm   (1348 words)

  
 LIFE Nature - Geographical description of Vrancea Mountains
In Vrancea Mountains it is possible to identify the following geological structural units: the Carpathian flisch, the neogene area and the quaternary area.
The area of the Carpathian flisch corresponds to the mountainous area of the stream systems of Putna and Ramnic and is integrated in the area of the Oriental Carpathians flisch whose disposal started at the end of Jurassic and continued until the inferior Miocene (V. Mutihac, S. Ionesii, 1974).
The most important is in the central sector of the western ridge of Vrancea Mountains, and is represented by the ridge Lacauti-Arisoaia, out of which the rivers Putna and Zabala are spread radially.
www.carnivoremari.ro /vnen/db82.html   (1475 words)

  
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Introduction Strong earthquakes in the Romanian Vrancea area have caused a high to ll of casualties and extensive damage over the last centuries [1].
Seismicity beneath Vrancea i s characterized by the occurrence of intermediate depth earthquakes in a narrow epicentral and hypocentral region.
Projects - Deep Seismic Sounding of the Vrancea Zone: Definition of the elastic structure of crust and upper mantle along a profile from the Vrancea area across Bucharest to the Danube; derivation of reliable models of shearwave velocities and attenuation.
www.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de /vvv/2000/physik/4/4.text   (3082 words)

  
 The Vrancea region in the SE-Carpathians is a complex tectonic zone dominated by continental collision between the ...
The Vrancea region in the SE-Carpathians is a complex tectonic zone dominated by continental collision between the East-Europe
The Vrancea region in the SE-Carpathians is a complex tectonic zone dominated by continental collision between the East-European Platform and an intra-Carpathian block.
Active subduction in the region ceased 8-9 Myr ago, when the last remains of an ocean were subducted and continental material prevents further subduction.
www.sg.geophys.ethz.ch /geodynamics/klaus/vrancea/vrancea.htm   (470 words)

  
 Camera de Comert, Industrie si Agricultura Vrancea
To celebrate their results had been organised the International Festival of Wine and Vineyards, the most important event of its kind in the country, honoured every time by the vineyards workers, the most important personalities of political, scientific and culture of life in Romania and also by the producers and processors of grapes from abroad.
For the citizens of Vrancea county, the International Festival of Wine and Vineyards is a reason of pride that create the beauty ot carry out the remarkable tradition of the wine growers celebration.
In 1999 participated a number of 250 samples from 27 companies and 14 private producers, being awarded 84 gold medals, 75 silver medals and 44 bronze medals.
www.ccia-vrancea.ro /expo/bachus_EN.html   (373 words)

  
 Romania: Death in suspicious circumstances of Ion Putoi and Toader Elinoiu
Amnesty International is concerned about reports that Ion Pusoi and Toader Elinoiu were severely ill-treated by police officers in two separate incidents in Nereju, Vrancea county, and that their deaths may have resulted from the alleged ill-treatment.
Nereju is a municipality in Vrancea county with around 5,000 inhabitants.
In a press statement released on 17 August, the Vrancea Country Police Inspectorate claimed that Toader Elinoiu had died as a result of drinking surgical spirit and that ''there were no signs of violence'' on the body of the deceased.
www.amnestyusa.org /countries/romania/document.do?id=E6BB6C18FDF7CEE4802569A500543B9F   (1965 words)

  
 5th List of 1998 ICTP Preprints   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Realistic numerical simulation, describing the propagation of the seismic wavefield generated by a given quake in a complex geological structure, is a powerful tool, that may be efficiently used to estimate the ground motion for microzonation of the whole Bucharest area.
The medium is modelled with a regional layered structure (bedrock structure), containing the seismic source and assumed to be representative of the path from the source to Bucharest, and a local structure, that is a NE20$^\circ$SW oriented cross section, describing the local structure of Bucharest, along the studied path.
They are (1) the magnitude threshold Mo, (2) the depth, D, separating the intermediate-depth Vrancea events from the shallow ones, (3) the radius, R, of the horizontal circle, and (4) the linear dimension, H in the vertical plane,around the main shock, used to decluster the catalog from aftershocks.
ces.iisc.ernet.in /hpg/envis/doc98html/miscictp726.html   (700 words)

  
 Enlaces : World : Român? : Regional : Europa : România : Vrancea :: 100cia.com
Vrancea - Informa?ii despre sistemul sanitar public ?i privat din jude?, cu detaliere asupra activit??ii, date despre evenimente recente, referin?e din pres?, legisla?ie ?i declara?ii de avere ale personalului de conducere..
Jude?ul Vrancea - Scurt istoric, descriere geografic?, informa?ii turistice ?i profilul economic - informa?ii oferite de Club Romania..
Ziarul de Vrancea - Articole, editoriale ?i ?tiri de interes jude?ean, grupate pe categorii..
www.100cia.com /recursos/enlaces/World/Rom%c3%a2n%c4%83/Regional/Europa/Rom%c3%a2nia/Vrancea   (315 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Department of Earth Sciences, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK The Vrancea deep seismic zone in the Carpathian foreland has been adequately defined for several decades but its origin is still a hotly contested question.
Although it does seem to be true that Vrancea has no exact present-day analogues, there are at least two instances of deep seismicity associated with intensely curved collision arcs that have some similarities.
Although neither Alboran nor Banda Arc seismicity is any better understood than Vrancea, their joint consideration, by a group of workers each of whom is experienced in at least one of the three, could be fruitful.
www.es.ucl.ac.uk /people/milsom/mullerabs.htm   (379 words)

  
 Vrancea se afla pe aceeasi falie cu "zona fierbinte" din Oceanul Indian | News | VeNoM's WebLog
Acesta a dorit, totodata, sa faca unele precizari in legatura cu speculatiile potrivit carora in 2006 se va produce in Vrancea un cutremur devastator.
Mai exact, Banda Aceh si Vrancea sint doua puncte aflate la confluenta dintre placa tectonica Indo-australiana si placa Eurasia, cum poate fi observat in imaginea alaturata.
Seismul care a avut loc in Managua in 1977, cu putin timp inainte de cel din Romania, a avut o intensitate de 6,8 pe Richter, mult mai mica decit cea inregistrata de curind in Oceanul Indian.
www.phprebel.org /weblog/p/ziare/o/news/nid/30319/venom.html   (1132 words)

  
 Roving Romania, Landrover tours
This is a hiking/trekking route in the wild and beautiful Vrancea Mountains on the ‘bend’ of the Carpathians.
I thought I was familiar with it but during the two weekends of researching the route in which I covered some 800 km, I discovered areas I didn't know existed.
The first part of the route is well covered by the "Muntii Nostri - Vrancea" book and its associated map which I have photocopied and annotated.
www.roving-romania.co.uk /tour12.htm   (1112 words)

  
 Cutremurele in Vrancea se intetesc | News | VeNoM's WebLog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Cutremurul de sambata din Vrancea, care a inregistrat o intensitate de 4,5 grade pe scara Richter, nelinisteste nu numai pe o anumita parte a specialistilor din Romania, dar si pe vranceni, care de doua zile numai despre asta discuta.
Se poate spune ca in ultimul timp in Vrancea se produce un cutremur de peste 4 grade pe scara Richter pe luna, iar vrancenii se tem ca acestea sa nu fie de fapt semnele precursoare ale unui seism mult mai puternic, anuntat, de altfel, de toti specialistii.
Trei cutremure de peste 4 grade pe scara Richter au avut loc in Vrancea in mai putin de 4 luni de zile, toate acestea fiind precedate de miscari tectonice destul de importante.
www.phprebel.org /weblog/p/ziare/o/news/nid/3634/venom.html   (1288 words)

  
 IFEX ::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
RSF and Romania's Media Monitoring Agency (MMA) expressed alarm over attempts to intimidate Sebastian Oancea, of the daily "Ziarul de Vrancea" ("The Vrancea Newspaper"), while he was covering the campaign of the ruling Social Democratic Party and Romanian Humanist Party (PSD-PUR Union).
RSF and the MMA recalled that journalists from "Ziarul de Vrancea" have previously been subjected to official local harassment.
In 2002, municipal authorities blocked sales of "Ziarul de Vrancea" by bringing in cranes to demolish half a dozen kiosks that sold the daily.
www.ifex.org /en/content/view/full/62405   (340 words)

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