Powerful earthquake in Banja Luka!
SARAJEVO - A strong earthquake shook Banja Luka and sjevorozapadni part of Bosnia and Herzegovina about an hour after midnight . According to initial information intensity earthquake of 4.5 degrees on the Richter scale .
It lasted a few seconds and the intensity can be placed in the strongest in recent years .
According to data from the European Centre seismic epicenter was 31 km north of Banja Luka , 10 kilometers south of Gradiska at a depth of 2 km in the village Reon Cerovljani .
According to the testimony of the social networks earthquake was felt throughout BiH , Croatian and western Serbia . Also , according to the data we collected through social networks , in Prijedor even moved the furniture to the upper floors .
Earthquake aforementioned volume can cause damage to the small scale buildings in the epicentral areas , but for now there is no information about such consequences .
An earthquake measuring 4.2 on the Richter is estimated intensity in the epicentral zone of six degrees Mercalli scale was recorded last night with its epicenter in the area of Midsummer in Banja Luka , the Hydro-meteorological data of the RS .
An earthquake of this intensity can cause damage to old and poorly -built facilities and the majority of the population feels it .
According to figures from the Hydrometeorological Institute of RS this earthquake occurred at 1:03 pm.
Doder : No casualties
The earthquake measuring 4.2 on the Richter scale , which was last night rocked by the Banja Luka region , no injured people or damage to property , said Srna director of Civil Protection of the Republic of Serbian Milimir Doder .
"We have information that there was some material damage , but it will check in during the day ," said Doder .
He noted that the Center for observation, reporting and alerting in Banja Luka last night and this morning appeared a large number of citizens of Banja Luka , Gradiska Prijedor and other places where the earthquake felt that they were in a panic .
Doder said the quake occurred at 1:03 hours and it lasted for a few seconds , and the epicenter was in the village area Midsummer , twenty miles northwest of Banja Luka .
- 28 Jan, 2014
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