Why Earthquakes Threaten Two Major European Cities: Istanbul and Bucharest
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Why earthquakes threaten two major European cities: Istanbul and Bucharest
Istanbul and Bucharest are major European cities that face a continuing threat of large earthquakes. The geological contexts for these two case studies enable us to understand the nature of the threat and to predict more precisely the consequences of future earthquakes, though we remain unable to predict the time of those events with any precision better than multi-decadal. These two cities fac...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Review
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1062-7987,1474-0575
DOI: 10.1017/s1062798717000448