Recent plate kinematics i Romania

The paper gives some final results of the subproject "Three Dddimensional Plate Kinematics in Romania" of the CRC 461 "Strong Earthquakes", funded by the German Research Foundation at the Universitat Karlsruhe in the year 1996 to 2007. The reprocessing of the data of 14 GPS campaigns performed from 1995 to 2006 in the deformation network, covering the middle and eastern part of Romania, using the Bernese Software (version 5.0) is discussed, including the analysis of multipath effects and antenna calibrations. From the daily coordinate solutions astation velocities were derived using the kinematic model of deformation analysis. Based on these station velocities a three dimensinal velocity field was estimated using the technique of multilevel B-spline approximation, followed by the calculation of strain components. Especially the results of the height derormations could help to support the geophysical modelling of the Vrancea earthquakes.