A strong earthquake was felt at dawn in the area of the border between Montenegro and Bosnia, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS).
The epicenter of the 5.4-magnitude earthquake — the German geodynamic institute GFZ earlier estimated it at 5.6 — was located in western Montenegro, about thirty kilometers in a straight line from Mount Nixic, or about 25 kilometers from the Bosnian town Billetsa.
So far, neither casualties nor damage have been reported.
According to the USGS, the focal depth was shallow, just 7.6 kilometers. The earthquake was felt in Sarajevo and all over the western Balkans, an area where high seismicity is recorded.
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake occurred in the same area in April 2022, killing one person and injuring several others in Stolac, Bosnia.
The previous strong earthquake in the Western Balkans (magnitude 6.4) was recorded on 29 December 2020 in Croatia, in the Petrinia region (central), where seven people had lost their lives and hundreds of buildings and houses had been destroyed.
In March 2020, the Croatian capital Zagreb was hit by a magnitude 5.3 earthquake that caused widespread damage.
And, in November 2019, more than 50 people died in Albania due to a 6.4 magnitude earthquake, which also left thousands homeless.
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