PLOVDIV UNIVERSITY "PAISII HILENDARSKI"

Faculty of Physics and technology- GeoTEAM            

        


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 MSc program on renewable energies and energy efficiency at FTF - Plovdiv University 'P. Hilendarski'

 

Pernik Earthquake: an earthquake of magnitude 5.8 hit Western Bulgaria, on May 22nd, 2012, 25km south west of the Bulgarian capital, Sofia. This shallow earthquake was largely felt in the region and up to Greece and Macedonia. No severe injuries have been reported so far, though a state of emergency was declared in Pernik (the closest city to the epicenter) and superficial damages were observed ... more

One can find the report of the Geological Institute team, BAS on Pernik earthquake here ...

 

Dipl. Eng. Petar Vulchev provided a copy of his GEORADAR equipment to the Geoteam at the Faculty of Physics and Engineering Technologies of Plovdiv University 'Paisiy Hilendarski'. The team will examine the potential of the equipment to be applied for studying the shallow crust. Find details here ... 


 

ELECTRICITY SYSTEM OPERATOR -  http://www.eso.bg/                                                      recent publications                       

 

The GeoTEAM at Plovdiv University is working as part of the Faculty of Physics. Its research activity is focused mainly on stochastic modeling of seismicity, non-linear features of complex systems, site effects characteristics (mainly the application of the H/V spectral ratio technique) etc.

Plovdiv University, named in honor of the Bulgarian historian Paisiy Hilendarski, is the city’s leading cultural and scientific institution. It is the largest institution of higher education in Southern Bulgaria, and the second largest Bulgarian university, after St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia. The year 2001 marks the university’s fortieth anniversary.

Plovdiv is the second largest city in Bulgaria and the largest administrative, economic, cultural and scientific center in Southern Bulgaria. It was founded in the 2nd millennium BC as a Thracian settlement, and has centuries-old cultural and archaeological heritage. The city which is much older than Athens or Rome, treasures its architectural artifacts located in its Old Town. The unique Renaissance atmosphere of Old Plovdiv charms visitors to the city, and the seven hills on which this part of the city is situated, have their own special charisma.

 

 

 

Seismic Catalogs - a number of catalogs covering the Balkans and some other regions


Aftershock sequence after the earthquake of April 5, 2002 near Krumovo.

 

- list of earthquakes

- epicenter map

- photos from the epicenter region

- damages

 

 

1.   Recent  publications

Gospodinov, D. and Rotondi,  R., (2001), Exploratory analysis of marked Poisson Processes applied to Balkan earthquake sequences, Journ. Balkan Geoph. Soc., 4, 3, 61-68.

Gospodinov, D., V. Karakostas, R. Papadimitriou, (2005), Stochastic modelling of the relaxation process after the M=9.0 Sumatra earthquake of December 26, 2004; preliminary analysis, Proc. of the  4th Con. of the Balkan Geoph. Society, 9-12 October 2005, Bucharest, Romania, pp.327-330

Gospodinov, D., B. Ranguelov, E. Papadimitriou, V. Karakostas, (2005), Statistical methods to analyze seismicity interaction in neighbor zones; application to simulated data, Proc. of the 80-years Anniv.Intern. Sci.Conference on Geology, Sofia, November 17-18, 2005, pp.185-188

Gospodinov D. and Rotondi R., (2006),  "RETAS: a restricted ETAS model inspired, by Bath's law", The 4th Internat.Workshop on Statistical Seismology, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Shonan Village, Japan, 9-13 January 2006, ISM (Institute of Statistical Mathematics) Report on Research and Eucation No. 23, 92-95. 

Gospodinov, D., R. Rotondi,(2006), Statistical Analysis of Triggered Seismicity in the Kresna Region of SW Bulgaria (1904) and the Umbria-Marche Region of Central Italy (1997), Pure appl. geophys., 163, 1597–1615

Tranos M., Karakostas V., Papadimitriou E., Kachev V., Ranguelov B., Gospodinov D., (2006), Major active faults of SW Bulgaria: implications of their geometry, kinematics and the regional active stress regime., in Tectonic development of the Eastern Mediterranean region. (Robertson A. and Mountrakis D. - eds.), Geological Society of London, Special publications 260, pp. 671-687.

Karaksotas V., Papadimitriou E., Gospodinov D., Ranguelov B., (2006), Slip distribution for the 1928 Chirpan and Plovdiv main shocks and earthquake triggering., Proc. Intl.Conf. SGEM 2006 - papers., Albena, 12-16 June., vol. 2, p.119-126.

B. Ranguelov, S. Dimitrova, D. Gospodinov, G. Lamykina, (2007). Geodynamics of the South Balkans -    Seismotectonic Model, Fractality and Nonlinear Properties., in Monograph GEODYNAMICS OF THE BALKAN PENINSULA (Ed.G.Milev), Reports of Geodesy, No. 5 (80), pp. 609 – 626.

Papadimitriou E., V. Karakostas, M. Tranos, B. Ranguelov, D. Gospodinov., (2007). Static stress changes associated   with normal faulting earthquakes in South Balkan area., Int. J. Earth Sci. (Geol. Rundsch.), Springer-Verlag,  Volume 96, Number 5, pp. 911-924, DOI: 10.1007/s00531-006-0139-x