DEFINING SEISMIC RESILIENCE WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF NORTH-EASTERN REGION OF ROMANIA

This paper presents an overview of the resilience concepts, being focused on the seismic resilience linked to the North-Eastern region of Romania. This research theme is studied in varied and distinct disciplines, and in the engineering field is one of the most important issues because seismic resilience must be achieved in order to have a safety built environment. Earthquakes produced in the Vrancea region affect a large part of Romania, but few studies have particularized the general framework of Vrancea earthquakes' effect on the Iasi county, Iasi municipality within N-E Romania context. In this manner, this paper analyses the situation of the Iasi County related to the resilience against natural disaster, like earthquakes, and the actual state of the road network. For a right analysis, it is important to understand the resilience definitions, the way of quantifying it, the possible natural hazards that could affect the area and to identify the critical components in case of emergency situations. Using the resilience aspects is possible to improve the way engineers, planners and stakeholders design and evaluate the built environment. The idea of building resilience to natural hazards, such as earthquakes, or man-made disasters is now a dominant research theme.