The 1940 Vrancea Earthquake. Issues, Insights and Lessons Learnt

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The 1940 Vrancea Earthquake. Issues, Insights and Lessons Learnt is written by Radu Vacareanu and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3319298445 (ISBN 10) and 9783319298443 (ISBN 13).

These proceedings include most of the available information on this major seismic event and its consequences. With an estimated moment magnitude of 7.7 and a heavy toll in terms of human and economic losses, it ranks as the largest intermediate-depth earthquake in Europe in the twentieth century. Nevertheless, because of the difficult conditions in the 1940s, the lessons learnt after the Vrancea earthquake were not extensively shared with the international scientific community and thus, this book fills a gap in the literature discussing the knowledge acquired after major disasters. Past experience together with current understanding of the 1940 Vrancea earthquake are presented along with the latest information on Romanian seismicity, seismic hazard and risk assessment, and seismic evaluation and rehabilitation of buildings and structures. Moreover, it includes excerpts from Romanian post-disaster reports and textbooks concerning the earthquake.