Abstract:

The National Institute for Earth Physics (NIEP) is the leading institution for seismology in Romania, responsible for the seismic, geophysical and geodetic monitoring of the area, with focus on seismic source and seismo-tectonics, seismic hazard and risk assessment, engineering seismology, earthquake forecast and tsunamis.
NIEP is Tsunami National Contact (TNC) and Tsunami Warning Focal Points (TWFP) of Romania for the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami Early Warning and Mitigation System in the North-eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and connected seas (ICG/NEAMTWS) and attended different tsunami exercises (NEAMWave14, NEAMWave17, NEAMWave21)
The Black Sea area is liable to tsunamis generation, with more than twenty past events (Papadopoulos et al., 2011). The Romanian shore is exposed to tsunami waves due to the Shabla seismic zone, where an earthquake of magnitude Mw 7.2 occurred on 31st of March 1901, triggered tsunami waves up to 5 m heights.
Starting with 2007, NIEP developed the tsunami research field, by different national, regional and international projects, with a total number of seven past projects: PROFET - Multidisciplinary researches on natural hazards. Case study: tsunami type phenomenon in the Black Sea (national project); MARINEGEOHAZARD - Set-up and implementation of key core components of a regional early-warning system for marine geo-hazards of risk to the Romanian-Bulgarian Black Sea coastal area (regional project); GTIMS - Global Tsunami Informal Monitoring Service (international project); GTIMS2 - Global Tsunami Informal Monitoring Service 2 (international project); ASTARTE - Assessment, STrategy And Risk Reduction for Tsunamis in Europe - Black Sea (international project); ARISTOTLE - All Risk Integrated System Towards the Holistic Early-Warning (international project) and AGITHAR - Accelerating Global Science in Tsunami Hazard and Risk Analysis (international project). In the framework of ASTARTE project, questionnaires were performed along the Romanian shoreline, the results (Constantin et al.,2017) showing that people are not properly informed regarding tsunami risk and/or how to behave, thus the necessity of education and dissemination.
In this paper, NIEP’s tsunami related work will be emphasized by structuring different posters/roll-ups and flyers/booklets. Moreover, educational materials of the ICG/NEAMTWS group will be translated in Romanian, and all will be used to inform the population on the potential hazard of tsunamis.

Acknowledgements:
This paper was carried out within Nucleu Program SOL4RISC, supported by MCI, project no PN23360201

References:
[1] Constantin A.P., Moldovan I.A., Lavigne F., Grancher D., Partheniu R. - Perception And Preparedness Of The Tsunami Risk Within The Black Sea (Romania) Communities, Proc. of the 17th International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference, pg 311-318, STEF92 Technology Ltd., ISBN 978-619-7408-00-3
[2] Papadopoulos G. A., Diakogianni G., Fokaefs A., Ranguelov B., Tsunami hazard in the Black Sea and the Azov Sea: a new tsunami catalogue”, Natural Hazards and Earth System Science, Vol. 11, 2011, pp. 945 - 963

Keywords:

Tsunami research, tsunami modeling, Black Sea.