A 4.0 earthquake shakes Slovenia-Croatia border area
Ljubljana, 30 July - The Environment Agency's seismographs picked up a 4.0-magnitude earthquake at 7:34pm on Saturday nine kilometres east of the village of Jelšane near the Slovenian border with Croatia. The tremor was felt in several places across Slovenia as well as in Croatia.
Ljubljana
A seismogram.
Photo: Slovenian Environment Agency
File photo
The Croatian authorities recorded a 4.2-magnitude quake with the epicentre seven kilometres north-east of the village of Klana, the Croatian press agency Hina reported.
About half an hour before the quake, the Slovenian sensors picked up a smaller, 1.2-magnitude quake 12 kilometres north of the Croatian town of Rijeka.
This morning, at 8:29am, a 2.0-magnitude earthquake was recorded the west of the country. Data from the Environment Agency shows the epicentre was 63 kilometres west of Ljubljana, in the vicinity of Tolmin.