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 Coastal Hazards in Romania  Coastal erosion is a growing concern around Europe. The removal of soil and sand by wind, water and human action has left several European coastal areas defenceless against flooding and high tides or extremely high tides, threatening human and marine life. On the Romanian coast, the entire southern sector of beaches and coastline have been acutely eroded by the construction of ports as well as dams along the Danube to the Black Sea. This has led to the deterioration of “sediment transport,” which is the natural movement of sand and gravel by the water. A Senior Water Engineer working at the European Investment Bank, which is lending €97 million for co-financing a project together with the European Commission to protect the Romanian Black Sea coast from erosion and floods. To tackle this issue, the Dobrogea Litoral Water Basin Administration is implementing the second phase of a project phase one was completed in 2017; that will reduce coastal erosion and pr

Extreme Weather in Romania Like other countries in south-east Europe, Romania has a temperate continental climate, with very warm summers and cold, snowy winters. The article Storm Mathis Brings Extreme Weather To Romania: Snow, Rain And Cold Expected,  discusses how Romania recently during its cold months which is in its peak in January experienced extreme weather. The cold, rainfalls and even snowfalls take over Romania. The Mathis storm that swept a large part of Europe arrives at night in our country. Meteorologists have already issued warnings of cold weather, heavy snow and strong winds. The temperatures will not exceed 10 degrees in the following days, and there will be a blizzard in the mountains and a consistent layer of snow will be deposited. The National Meteorological Administration (ANM) announced that, starting Monday night, a code yellow alert of significant precipitation, snow, wind intensification and particularly cold weather will come into effect in most of the cou

Mass Wasting Events in Romania Romania is increasingly vulnerable to: droughts, high temperatures, heat waves, heavy precipitation, landslides, earthquakes, and floods.  Droughts may become more frequent in some areas due to river runoff decrease as well as from increased demand and consumption due to economic development and population growth.  Flooding, land use change, increased aridity and deforestation are impacting land stability, particularly in Romania’s central and eastern zones. This is resulting in a high degree of vulnerability to and risk from, landslides. This is further compounded by changing temporal changes and rainfall variability. Precipitation patterns and variability, land use, wind, glacial and snow melt, and other climatic conditions affect river systems. Catastrophic flooding in Romania has led to built-environment destruction, fatalities and significant economic losses. The most common natural disasters include heavy rainstorms, mudslides and landslides. Natur

 Romanias Seismic Activity       R omania just experienced an earthquake on the 14th of February. The magnitude was 5.6 and it also affected the countries Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Hungary, Kosovo, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia, and Serbia. Romania contains the Vrancea earthquake zone, which is the site of strong intermediate-depth seismicity, down to 220 km depth. Different from the scattered crustal seis- micity, most of the intermediate-depth earthquakes occur in a very limited seismogenic volume with about 30 × 70 km lateral extent and in a depth range from 70–180 km  Romania lies on the Vrancea fault that forms an ellipse stretching from the northeast to the southwest of the country. Proximity to the fault and poor soils make Bucharest Europe's highest seismic risk capital city and one of the 10 most vulnerable cities in the world. Over 35% of Romanians, or 65% of the urban population, is exposed to seismic hazards from the Vrancea fault. Records show that lar

  Romania's Tectonic Plates  During Early Cretaceous time, movement sense changed and the microplates were translated toward the stable craton. The Apuseni ophiolites were obducted onto continental crust. Convergent plate boundaries, with flysch, nappe structures, and silicic volcanism, developed between Moesia-Pannonia and the Tethys-Dinaric Oceans and between Pannonia and the Siret Ocean. In Paleocene time, a belt of calc-alkalic rocks (banatites) developed in western Romania and the Balkan Mountains as a result of plate convergence of Rhodope and Moesia as the last of Tethys was subducted. This was followed by a continental collision of Moesia and Pannonia and the uplift of the South Carpathians. Neogene volcanism and molasse developed as end stages of plate subduction and collision. Modern earthquake activity of the Vrancea Mountains and high heat flow in Transylvania suggest that subduction is still going on around the great Carpathian arch. The revision of Romanian earthquake

 Introduction to Romania  Romania, country of southeastern Europe. The Romanian landscape is approximately one-third mountainous and one-third forested, with the remainder made up of hills and plains. The climate is temperate and marked by four distinct seasons. Romania enjoys a considerable wealth of natural resources: fertile land for agriculture; pastures for livestock; forests that provide hard and soft woods; petroleum reserves; metals, including gold and silver in the Apuseni Mountains; numerous rivers that supply hydroelectricity; and a Black Sea coastline that is the site of both ports and resorts. The country forms a complex geographic unit centered on the Transylvanian Basin, around which the peaks of the Carpathian Mountains and their associated subranges and structural platforms form a series of crescents.    https://www.britannica.com/place/Romania Now here are the differences between hazards, disasters and catastrophes. Hazards:  A hazard is any phenomena that has the p