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An earthquake of magnitude 6.4 was recorded in Croatia around 12:20, just over 24 hours after yesterday’s 5.2 earthquake. The epicenter was again at Petrinja, a city about fifty kilometers south of Zagreb, which suffered serious damage, while a new earthquake, measuring 13.34 and magnitude 4.5, was registered in Sisak, a town not far from the epicenter. According to the first information from the place, the center was completely destroyed by the earthquake and they also collapsed a hospital and a nursery. At the moment it has been reported at least A victim: According to local media reports, this is a 12-year-old girl. Also injured in Zagreb. Mayor Darinko dumbovi, talking to the station 24 sataHe said: “It’s terrible – he said – there are dead and wounded, we saw a dead child in a square the center of Petrinja is destroyed. It is a disaster, come hiroshima“.
After the violent earthquake at 12:20 p.m., central Croatia was swept away by a swarm of other minor tremors, the strongest of which was at 1:34 p.m. magnitude 4.5, with its epicenter 14 km from Sisak, a town not far from Petrinja.
Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic, who was evacuated from the government headquarters in the capital, which was also damaged, spoke by phone with the president of the EU commission, Ursula von der Leyen, who promised urgent help from the Union. “We are ready to help. I asked Commissioner Janez Lenarcik to go to Croatia as soon as the situation allowed,” von der Leyen said. Meanwhile, the Croatian army has mobilized to provide assistance to affected populations. At least 300 soldiers went to Petrinja. And the President of the Republic also arrived at the place, Zoran Milanovic.
The earthquake was felt throughout Croatia, but also in Serbia me Bosnia Herzegovina. A nuclear power plant in Slovenia It was closed as a precaution. The impact, like yesterday, was also felt in Italy, along the Adriatic coast, from Trieste to Abruzzo. Reports also come from Ravenna and from the north of Naples. The strong impact was even felt within the GranSasso Nuclear Physics Laboratories. Operators clearly noticed the earthquake due to the remarkable sensitivity of the instruments. Among these especially the department that uses the ‘cryostat’, a kind of very sensitive huge refrigerator that studies neutrinos in the ‘Heart’ experiment, which has been sensitively heated.
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