1880 Zagreb earthquake
Triune Kingdom of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia, Austria-Hungary | |
| Max. intensity | EMS-98 VIII (Heavily damaging) – EMS-98 IX (Destructive) |
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| Casualties | 1 dead, 29 seriously injured |
The 1880 earthquake which struck Zagreb, and is also known as The Great Zagreb earthquake, occurred with a moment magnitude of 6.3 on 9 November 1880. Its epicenter was in the Medvednica mountain north of Zagreb. Although only one person was killed in the earthquake, it destroyed or damaged many buildings.
Events
According to the Zagreb Meteorological Station data, the earthquake struck at 07:33 AM
City authorities formed a commission to assess the damage, and their official report said that a total of 1,758 buildings were affected (not counting churches and state-owned buildings), out of which 485 were heavily damaged.
Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts organized documenting of damaged buildings by prominent Zagreb photographer Ivan Standl.[1]
The most prominent building damaged was
See also
References
- ^ Damjanovic, Dragan. "Photo Albums of the 1880 Zagreb Earthquake". VisibileInvisibile. Percepire la Città Tra Descrizioni e Omissioni. VI. Città Immaginate: Sguardi Sulla Città Contemporanea, Pages 1833 - 1845.
Bibliography
- Horvat, Rudolf (1992). Prošlost grada Zagreba (in Croatian). Zagreb: August Cesarec. pp. 66–71. ISBN 978-86-393-0267-2.
- Kozák, J.; Cermák, V. (2010), "Zagreb (Agram) Earthquake, Croatia, 1880", The illustrated history of natural disasters, pp. 151–153, ISBN 978-90-481-3324-6
Further reading
- Prelogović, Eduard; Cvijanović, Dragutin (1981). "Potres u Medvednici 1880. godine" (PDF). Geol. vjesnik (in Croatian) (34): 137–146. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
External links
- Contemporary photographs of damaged buildings at Kultura.hr (in Croatian)
- Potresi na zagrebačkom području (in Croatian)
- Zagreb cathedral in the 1880 earthquake and its present day renovation (in Croatian)
- Potres 1880.g.
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