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MACROSEISMIC EFFECTS OF 26 NOVEMBER 1829, 1 MAY 1893, 17 AUGUST 1893 AND 31 AUGUST 1894 VRANCEA EARTHQUAKES
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The Vrancea zone is an area of concentrated seismicity at intermediate depths (60-200 km) beneath the bending area of the South-Eastern Carpathians in Romania. The purpose of the paper is first to find historic data related to the four selected Vrancea earthquakes occurred on 26 November 1829 (Mw 7.3), 1 May 1893 (Mw 6.2), 17 August 1893 (Mw 7.1) and 31 August 1894 (Mw 7.1). Next, to gather all available historic information about those events, analyze it, assess/or convert the intensity using the Medvedev-Sponheuer-Karnik (MSK-64) scale. Further, to compile corresponding macroseismic maps for these earthquakes applying an optimized interpolation method (Kriging). The macroseismic effects distribution has been compared to the distribution of intensity in cases of instrumentally registered strong 20th century Vrancea events of 1940 (Mw 7.7), 1977 (Mw 7.4) and 1986 (Mw 7.1) in order to highlight possible correlation between the main earthquake parameters пїЅ magnitude, source depth and macroseismic intensity
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