The project was aimed at presenting a translation of the version of EMS- 98 already published, with some additional developments aimed at providing a better applicability to the conditions of Romania (keeping in view, primarily, two facts: the features of ground motion due to Vrancea earthquakes and the features of the building stock that would generate, through its performance, the bulk of macroseismic information in the event of strong earthquakes). The developments presented rely on a project developed jointly by INCERC and the Institute of Geodynamics under support from the Ministry of Public Works, Transportation and Housing. Given this fact, it is reasonable if not mandatory to replace the current Romanian standard STAS 3684-71, which relies on the MSK-64 scale, by an official document endorsing the application in Romania of EMS- 98. MSK (also endorsed by ESC in the past) puts into evidence important elements of superiority of EMS and makes it possible to conclude that EMS- 98 represents currently a peak development in the succession of macroseismic scales of traditional kind. A comparison of EMS- 98 with previous macroseismic scales as e.g. International Nuclear Information System (INIS)ĮMS- 98 (European Macroseismic Scale ' 98) was endorsed in 1998 by the European Seismological Commission and recommended for extensive use in the European area.
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