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National Institute for Earth Physics - Romanian Seismic Network (NIEP-RSN)
Identification
Hosting Legal Entity
National Institute for Earth Physics
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Location
Calugareni 12, National Institute for Earth Physics, Magurele, PO: 077125, Ilfov (Romania)
Structure
Type Of RI
Distributed
Coordinating Country
Romania
Status
Status
Current Status:
Operational
since 2002
Scientific Description
The mission of the National Institute for Earth Physics (NIEP) is monitoring of seismic activity in Romania and expansion of the boundaries of scientific knowledge, its creativity and efficiency increase through fundamental and applied researches in Earth physics domain, in general, and seismology domain, in particular. The real-time digital seismic network consists of 86 seismic stations with three components and 2 arrays: BURAR with 12 elements and PLOR with 7 elements. All data recorded by this network are transmitted in real time at NIEP for automatic data processing, analysis and dissemination. Starting with 2002 the modernization of Romania seismic network was based on the installation of new seismic stations in real time. This network consist of digital seismic stations equipped with acceleration sensors (EpiSensor) and velocity sensors (broadband STS2, CMG3ESP, KS2000, CMG40-T or short period SH-1, S13, Mark Product, etc). The remote seismological stations have three-component seismometers for weak motions and three-component accelerometer for strong motion. The primary goal of the real-time seismic network is to provide earthquakes parameters from more broadband stations with high dynamic range in order to compute more rapidly and with better accuracy the location and magnitude of the earthquakes. Seedlink and AntelopeTM program packages are used for real-time (RT) acquisition and data exchange.
RI Keywords
Seismic network, Real time communication, Seismic arrays
Classifications
RI Category
Solid Earth Observatories, including Seismological Monitoring Stations
Scientific Domain
Earth and Environmental Sciences
ESFRI Domain
Environment
Services
Earthquake catalogue, waveforms
Access to earthquake catalogue, waveform data by request.
Equipment
Broad band sensors, short-period sensors, strong motion instruments
Number of instruments and type: (i) 86 Seismic Stations (BB and SP), (ii) 115 strong motion station, (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), (iv) one seismic and strong motion array.
Access
Access Type
Remote
Access Mode
Wide
Users
Users Definition
Institutions
Date of last update: 27/03/2019