Serbia’s seismologist: Activities after Albanian earthquake will last for months

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Following the 6.4 degrees on Richter Scale earthquake that his Albania early on Tuesday will have hundreds of aftershocks or so-called triggered effects, Branko Dragicevic, Serbia’s seismologist has said, the news agencies reported.

 His colleague on duty at the Republic’s Seismology Institute Miodrag Petrovic added that after the earthquake in Albania, the tremors were expected in Serbia, but that the population should not panic since it wouldn’t cause material damage.

“The whole region felt the quake: Greece, North Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia. We’ve got calls from the whole country, and people living on the higher floors mostly felt the tremor,” Petrovic said.  

The US Geological Service (USGS) recorded the first earthquake in Serbia in 1456 with a magnitude of ten degrees on the Mercalli intensity scale, which would approximately be some seven degrees on the Richter scale.

The next of the similar magnitude happened in Serbia in 1922 with six degrees magnitude on the Richter scale.