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At 11:30 a.m., Croatia was hit by an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4, according to the German geo-institute GFZ.
The quake had its center just over a mile underground in the town of Petrinja, about 50 miles southeast of the capital. The rescue service claims that “several people” were injured in the earthquake, but it is not yet known how many there may be.
A dead girl is feared
Croatian Prime Minister Adrej Plenkovic says a child died in the earthquake.
– We have information that a girl has died, we have no other information about the dead, says the Prime Minister on television channel N1.
– The army is on its way to help. We will have to evacuate the people from Petrinja as it is no longer safe to be there.
Video recordings and footage from Petrinja show people rescued from landslides, rubble-strewn streets and houses where roofs collapsed.
– We took people out of the cars, we do not know if someone was injured or killed, says the mayor of the city, Darinko Dumbovic, also on television channel N1.
“Fractures and concussions”
Tomislav Fabijanic, head of the emergency room in the nearby town of Sisak, tells the TV channel that there are people who have been seriously injured, both in Sisak and Petrinja.
– It’s the fractures and concussions and some people we had to operate on, he says.
In the capital Zagreb, the earthquake prompted people to seek shelter outside buildings and down the street to protect themselves from possible landslides.
The earthquake was also felt in neighboring countries: up to Austrian Vienna, the earth is said to have shook. In neighboring Slovenia, as a result, the Slovenian-Croatian Krsko nuclear power plant was closed as a safety measure.
Exposed geographic location
The earthquake occurred just one day after central parts of Croatia were hit by a slightly smaller earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2.
Croatia’s location along the so-called Adriatic plate, a microcontinental plate, makes the country sensitive to earthquakes.
In March, Zagreb was rocked by a 5.3 magnitude earthquake, one of the strongest earthquakes measured in the country in decades. During that earthquake, many buildings were severely damaged, including the city’s famous cathedral, whose spire was broken.
Fixed: In previous versions, the wrong geographic location was specified for the city of Petrinja.
There is great unrest in the Croatian capital Zagreb, which was rocked by an earthquake during the day. Photo: Filip Horvat / AP / TT
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