Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Zagreb has once again felt the shakes of an earthquake.

The major earthquakes which hit Zagreb on March 22, 2020, have wreaked havoc in the city center, and have been followed by numerous aftershocks. Most of them were not remarkable, but some of them the citizens of Zagreb will remember, as they still grapple with the consequences of The Big One, happening on that snowy morning during the pandemic of COVID-19.
 The earthquake which was felt in Zagreb today was not of that magnitude, nor it is expected that it created any damage. It's just that the people of this city have mostly, honestly, had enough.
 This is not a seismically very active part of the world, and we're not used to earthquakes like the people in Japan or California are, so we'd just like for the quakes to be over by now.
The experts, however, are warning us that it takes time for the soil to settle after "a big one" (and in terms of seismicity of this region, the earthquake we had in March was, in fact, a big one), so we'll just have to live with the soil settling for a while.
 EMSC reports that the magnitude of the latest earthquake was M 2.9, while some Croatian sources claim it was M 3.1.
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