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Advances in sensor techniques, digital acquisition, communication and computing allowed establishment of the field of real-time seismology (Kanamori et al., 1997) and the design of earthquake information systems that provide rapid information on ground motion and potential damage in an area for which a ground motion estimation data base is available and where the inventory of buildings and infrastructure and its vulnerability to shaking is known. We discuss a system for the Romanian capital of Bucharest, where an early warning system with about 30 seconds lead time, shake maps and a sophisticated damage estimation tool for Bucharest have been developed in the frame of the Collaborative Research Center on Strong Earthquakes (http://www-sfb461.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de/).
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Wenzel, F., Marmuraenu, G. Rapid Earthquake Information for Bucharest. Pure appl. geophys. 164, 929–939 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00024-007-0198-3
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00024-007-0198-3