Montenegro, 5.5 magnitude earthquake additionally felt in Italy | EUROtoday

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An earthquake of magnitude 5.5 was recorded at 3.06 native time (4.06 in Italy) within the north-west of Montenegro, not removed from the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina. According to knowledge from the Italian National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) and the US geological monitoring service USGS, the earthquake had a hypocenter roughly 10 kilometers deep and an epicenter 21 kilometers from town of Plužine.

The Montenegrin public broadcaster RTCG states that the earthquake was felt all through the nation on the Balkan peninsula however that in the meanwhile there aren’t any experiences of specific harm to individuals or issues. The Hydrometeorological and Seismological Institute (Zhms) of Montenegro specifies, nonetheless, that the earthquake could have brought about some materials harm within the space of ​​the epicentre, recognized extra exactly 5 kilometers south-west of Carodje. The quake was additionally felt on Italy's southern Adriatic coast. Reports on this sense come specifically from Puglia.