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Magnitude 5.5 Earthquake Strikes in Northwestern Montenegro, Felt on Italy’s Southern Adriatic Coast

A magnitude 5.5 earthquake was recorded at 3:06 local time (4:06 in Italy) in northwestern Montenegro, not far from the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina. According to data from the Italian National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) and the US geological monitoring service USGS, the earthquake had a hypocenter approximately 10 kilometers deep and an epicenter 21 km from the city of Plužine.

The quake was also felt on Italy’s southern Adriatic coast. Reports in this sense come in particular from Puglia. The epicenter is approximately 280 km away as the crow flies from Bari.

2024-03-14 08:05:00


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