Image: Giant. 1 – Map of the relief of Croatia, Slovenia and parts of several neighboring countries. The epicenter of the December 28, 2020 earthquake is highlighted in red. Credit: Topomap – Felix Reimann /
Institute of Geophysics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.
Czech Rep., Dec 30 (BD) – A very strong earthquake hit Croatia at noon on Tuesday, December 29th, with a magnitude of 6.3 on the Richter Scale. The epicentre was 47 km south-east of Zagreb, but the earthquake was also felt in the Czech Republic. Seven casualties were recorded.
The earthquake struck just 3 km from the town of Petrinja, one of the worst affected localities, along with Sisak, Glina and the surrounding area. Croatian government official Tomo Medved announced that the earthquake had claimed six lives; the seventh death was reported by Croatian newspaper Večernji.