On December 29 at 11:19 local time in Croatia there was a strong earthquake. The epicenter was located 46 kilometers from the capital of the country, Zagreb, at a depth of five kilometers. Shock magnitude was 6.3. And on the eve, almost there was an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2, the focus was at a depth of 2 kilometers.

In Zagreb, the capital of Serbia, Belgrade, and in several regions of Italy, tremors were also felt.. In Serbia, buildings swayed for a few seconds. A significant part of Zagreb was left without electricity, traffic lights do not work, telephone communications are broken. About a thousand buildings were damaged. One of the spiers of the cathedral in the capital collapsed. In the Croatian city of Petrinja, which is located five kilometers from the epicenter, tiles fell from the roofs of houses, falling asleep at the same time parked cars, some buildings were seriously damaged, the roof of the hospital collapsed, a kindergarten collapsed, luckily there were no children there. Children managed to run out of another crumbling kindergarten. People took to the streets for fear of new aftershocks. Rocked Croatia for days. “This morning we suffered a third, if not fourth earthquake,” Petrini Mayor Darinko Dumbovic told state television on Wednesday.. " Objects of historical importance were damaged. While the debris is being cleared, it is known about seven dead, including a 15-year-old girl.

Now the residents of Petrini who have been left homeless need winter tents, heaters, beds and sleeping bags, living containers. People are afraid to return to their homes. Someone sleeps in cars. About two hundred people took refuge in the barracks. In a de-energized hospital in Petrinia, doctors perform emergency operations by torchlight. Patients are evacuated to Zagreb.

The government allocated $ 19 million to eliminate the consequences of the earthquake. A nuclear power plant was temporarily closed in Slovenia near Zagreb.

There is no information about the injured Russians, the building of the Russian diplomatic mission was not damaged.