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Emerging Europe this week Croatia, killing at least seven people and injuring dozens of others. The quake, measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale, caused widespread damage in a number of towns close to the epicentre, 50 kilometres southeast of the capital Zagreb. “My town has been completely destroyed. We have dead children,” Darinko Dumbović, the mayor of the worst-hit town of Petrinja, said in a statement broadcast by Croatian TV station HRT. “This is like Hiroshima – half of the city no longer exists.” In neighbouring Slovenia, inspections at the Krsko Nuclear Power Plant – opera...

A search for survivors in Croatia stretched into the night Tuesday after a powerful earthquake killed at least seven people in the country's interior, tearing down rooftops and piling bricks in the streets. The 6.4-magnitude quake was felt as far afield as Vienna but the heavy damage was concentrated in and around Petrinja, a town of around 20,000 some 50 kilometres (30 miles) south of Croatia's capital Zagreb. Rescue teams shovelled away debris...

A strong earthquake hit central Croatia on Tuesday, destroying buildings and sending panicked people fleeing into rubble-covered streets in a town southeast of the capital. Authorities said five people were killed and at least 20 were injured.

Read more about 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes Croatia; at least six reported dead on Business Standard. A strong earthquake hit central Croatia on Tuesday, destroying buildings and sending panicked people fleeing into rubble-covered streets in a town southeast of the capital

2020-12-30 02:29:56 GMT2020-12-30 10:29:56(Beijing Time) Xinhua English ZAGREB, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- A strong 6.4 magnitude earthquake jolted Petrinja, a small city about 50 km southeast of the Croatian capital Zagreb, at 12:19 p.m. local time (1119 GMT) on Tuesday, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said.Five people were killed in the Petrinja quake, local police confirmed. At least 20 injured people have been hospitalized and a rescue team is searching for people trapped in the rubble. Media reports showed chaotic scenes of collapsed roofs, buildings and sma...