Croatia rocked by powerful 6.4 earthquake

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Croatia rocked by powerful 6.4 earthquake
Issued on: 29/12/2020 - 13:24

A powerful 6.4 magnitude earthquake collapsed buildings in central Croatia on Tuesday, striking near the town of Petrinja where rescue teams raced to comb through the rubble.

The tremor, which struck at a depth of 10 kilometres at around 1130 GMT according to the US Geological Survey (USGS), was also felt strongly some 50 kilometres (30 miles) north of the epicentre in the capital Zagreb, where panicked residents raced onto the streets, according to an AFP reporter. ...

The tremor comes one day after a smaller earthquake struck Petrinja, causing some damage to buildings.

The Balkan region lies on major fault lines and is regularly hit by earthquakes.

AFP via RFI.

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BBC reports at least one dead.

Mr. M's relatives whom we visited in 1998 lived in Zagreb and in towns to the southwest of that city (basically due south of the "I" in Slovenia in the map above), so that's a bit of a relief.