| Abstract: | Romania is one of the European countries most frequently affected by natural hazards due to its position within the alpine orogenic system and against the main atmospheric pressure centres.Hence the impact of exogenous factors that trigger strong earthquakes with several epicentres, and of exogenous or climate-driven factors with extreme climatic phenomena causing frequent floods, mass movements, soil erosion, droughts, hailstorms and strong winds. This paper deals mainly with natural disasters cased by the variability of climatic conditions (mostly by precipitations) in the years 1996 and 1997, their temporal and spatial distributions and the way they affected human life. In point of rainfall distribution and the ensuing natural hazards, the mentioned period shows two distinct intervals: December, 1996-March 1997 (mass movements) and June-August, 1997 (floods, hailstorm,Strong wind,landslides, soil erosion). |
