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Two other strong earthquakes struck Croatia on Wednesday morning, the first with a magnitude of 4.6 and the second with a magnitude of 4.8 on the Richter scale, with an epicenter in the Petrinja region, the news agency reports. Croatian HINA.
The first took place at 6:15 a.m., and the second a little later, said the director of the Seismology Agency, Ines Ivancic, for the Croatian radio station.
She said that the earth “ will shake for a long time. Tuesday’s earthquake was devastating and will surely be followed by a long series of earthquakes, including some strong ones.
Ivancic also said that earthquakes of less intensity than the current one will surely affect the buildings of Petrinja and Sisak, damaged by the 6.2 magnitude earthquake on Tuesday, which killed seven people and caused significant material damage.
Ivancic also said that Petrinja has been hit by a host of smaller earthquakes since Monday. The earth shakes almost every minute, he said, including at least 25 to 30 earthquakes with magnitudes greater than 3 on the Richter scale.
After Tuesday’s earthquake, the mayor of Petrina, a town where most of the buildings collapsed, confirmed the death of a child and the injuries of at least 20 people. “My city has been completely destroyed,” Petrinja Mayor Darinko Dumbovic said in a statement broadcast on HRT TV: “It’s like Hiroshima, half the city no longer exists.”
Publisher: Georgiana Marina
