Adrian GRIGORE 1, Bogdan GRECU 1, Mihaela RIZESCU 1,2, Constantin IONESCU 1, Daniela GHICA 1, Mihaela POPA 1
1 National Institute for Earth Physics,
12 Calugareni St., 031528 Bucharest-Magurele, Romania
2 Geotech Instruments, LLC, 10755 Sanden
Drive Dallas, TX 75238-1336, U.S.A
Recently, a new seismic monitoring station, the Bucovina Seismic Array, has
been established in the northern part of Romania, in a joint effort of the
Air Force Technical Applications Center, USA, and the National Institute
for Earth Physics, Romania. The array consists of 10 seismic sensors (9 short-period
and one broad band) located in boreholes and distributed on a 5 x 5 km area.
Starting July 24, 2002, the new seismic monitoring system became fully operational
by continuous recording and transmitting data in real-time to the National
Data Center of Romania, in Bucharest and to the National Data Center of USA,
in Florida. Bucovina Seismic Array, added to the present Seismic Network,
will provide much better seismic monitoring coverage of Romania's territory,
on-scale recording for weak-to-strong events, and will contribute to advanced
seismological studies on seismic hazard and risk, local effects and microzonation,
seismic source physics, Earth structure.
Key words: array, seismic station, seismic monitoring, seismic sensor, real-time data, detection.