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By Gabi Abramac
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A view of damaged building in Croatia.
On Monday, December 28, at 6:38 a.m. we were woken up by an earthquake in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia. The magnitude was 5.2 on the Richter-scale and the epicenter was 50 kilometers (30 miles) away, in the region of the city of Petrinja. My earthquake app, installed on my phone after the Zagreb earthquake of March 22, notified me of the magnitude of two anticipated aftershocks.
Wounds were still fresh from another earthquake of 5.3 magnitude that had hit the capital on March 22 in the midst of the pandemic lockdown. The quake claimed one life and left 27 people wounded. It damaged numerous buildings, and basically the entire historical city center. My own house suffered some damage, and the building of a language institute I own and run was practically destroyed and required serious renovation. Many Jewish communal institutions were also damaged, among them the Jewish community building
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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.
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Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said late Tuesday officials expected the death toll to rise.
The magnitude-6.4 earthquake hit the town of Petrinja the hardest. It came just a day after a magnitude-5.2 quake struck the same area.
People warm up around a fire after an earthquake, in Petrinja, Croatia, Dec. 29, 2020.
Many people spent Tuesday night outside, fearful of another earthquake striking already battered structures.
“The biggest part of central Petrinja is in a red zone, which means that most of the buildings are not usable,” Plenkovic said when he and other government ministers arrived in Petrinja after the earthquake.