Earthquakes struck Croatia in the early hours of Tuesday, with tremors also felt in Hungary, the HUN-REN Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences’ Kövesligethy Radó Seismological Observatory told the Hungarian News Agency.
It said the 4.2-magnitude quake occurred shortly after 2.30 AM local time, about 20 kilometres from the Hungarian border near the Serbian town of Sombor, on the Croatian-Serbian frontier. The phenomenon was felt in several places in south-western Hungary, the observatory said.
No damage or injuries, thankfully
A 4.1-magnitude earthquake on the Richter scale was recorded in the early hours of Tuesday in eastern Croatia, about 30 kilometres north-north-east of Osijek, in the area of Kopački rit (Kopácsi-rét), Croatia’s seismological service said.
Seismographs registered the tremor at 2.35 AM. Its epicentre was in the Kopački rit area, while the hypocentre — the point from which the ground movement originated — lay at a depth of about 13 kilometres. The nearest larger settlements to the epicentre were Vukovár, 7.6 kilometres away, and Beli Manastir (Pélmonostor), 9 kilometres away.
The earthquake’s intensity at the epicentre was estimated at level V on the European Macroseismic Scale. The tremor was felt across a wider area of eastern Croatia, as well as in Hungary and Serbia. The epicentre was about 61 kilometres east-south-east of Pécs and 17 kilometres west-south-west of Sombor in Serbia.
No damage or injuries have been reported.
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