1964 Slavonia earthquake

Earthquake in Slavonia, Croatia 1964 Dilj earthquake 7 32 km 5.6 L yes5.7 w yes April 13, 1964 09:30:03 CET 1964-04-13 08:30:03 45.3 N 18.1 E inline,title type:event iscgem868700 868700 Croatia 3 fatalities On April 13, 1964, an earthquake occurred at the Dilj mountain near the towns of Slavonski Brod and Đakovo in Slavonia, Croatia (at the time part of SFR Yugoslavia). A number of people were killed, and the damage to vulnerable structures was extensive. Geological location Slavonia, the eastern part of Croatia, is located on the Eurasian plate. The mountains of Psunj, Papuk, Krndija, and Dilj are considered less seismically active than others in the country.Laus Glamuzina 2024 14 An earthquake was recorded in the vicinity of Đakovo in 1884.Laus Glamuzina 2024 14 Earthquake The earthquake measured 5.7 on the moment magnitude scale. The tremor was assigned VII (Very strong) on the Modified Mercalli intensity scale. M 5.7 - 3 km NNE of Podvinje, Croatia April 13, 1964 https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/iscgem868700/executive United States Geological Survey 2025-04-24 The epicenter was near the towns of Slavonski Brod and Đakovo.Josipović Batorek 2013 180 Damage and casualties While the initial reporting on the earthquake in Glas Slavonije did not indicate a severe event, within a few days it became apparent that the damage would be measured in billions of Yugoslav dinars.Josipović Batorek 2013 181 On April 24, the newly-founded Disaster Protection Headquarters of the Osijek kotar reported its initial findings of 17 billion dinars worth of damage to public and private buildings.Josipović Batorek 2013 182 A 5th grade pupil died when a staircase collapsed in the "Ivan Goran Kovačić" elementary school in Đakovo.Josipović Batorek 2013 182https://www.vecernji.hr/vijesti/potres-u-stonu-1996-razrusio-pola-starog-grada-najrazorniji-u-povijesti-onaj-dubrovacki-1387789 Seizmolog Kuk - Potres u Stonu 1996. razrušio pola starog grada, najrazorniji u povijesti onaj dubrovački Suzana Lepan Štefančić Večernji list 22 March 2020 hr 4 January 2021 At the end of April, official reports also listed one other fatality, but because the deceased person was not named, this information was not necessarily reliable.Josipović Batorek 2013 182 Another fatality was reportedly in Slavonski Brod, as well as a person in the village of Karavukovo in the nearby western Vojvodina. Another man from Belgrade suffered a fatal stroke during the earthquake. https://www.glasistre.hr/hrvatska/potres-u-slavoniji-1964-godine-novinski-izvjestaji-bili-su-gotovo-identicni-danasnjima-jedna-od-dvije-zrtve-imala-je-13-godina-kao-i-djevojcica-iz-petrinje-690863 hr Glas Istre Dvije žrtve i ogromna šteta - Potres u Slavoniji 1964. godine 3 January 2021 Doria Mohorović The NCEI Global Historical Hazard Database cites 3 fatalities from this earthquake. NCEI Global Historical Hazard Database Significant Earthquake Information #4316 https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazel/view/hazards/earthquake/event-more-info/4316 2025-04-24 National Geophysical Data Center In response to the earthquake, the government established a reconstruction fund, which managed to raise around 3 billion dinars in 1964.Josipović Batorek 2013 186 It disbursed the funds to the affected municipalities in the following ratios: Slavonski Brod 77%, Ðakovo 17% and Slavonska Požega 6%.Josipović Batorek 2013 187 In the Đakovo region, the Yugoslav People's Army sent 100 and then up to 200 tents to accommodate the people most affected, as well as food and clothing.Josipović Batorek 2013 187 The worst affected villages were Musić, Lapovci, Hrkanovci, Ovčara, Paučje, Slobodna Vlast, Levanjska Varoš, Vučevci and Ivanovci.Josipović Batorek 2013 187 The damage included the destruction of 301 residential buildings and damage to 5,291 more.Josipović Batorek 2013 189 Nine schools were rendered unusable, affecting around 1,000 students, and 43 more were damaged, affecting about 8,000 more. The medical facilities in Đakovo were damaged to the extent that they had to be demolished, while significant damage was also recorded in several other villages, including on veterinarian stations, the Đakovo Cathedral, and other historical churches.Josipović Batorek 2013 190 In the Slavonski Brod region, the worst affected places were the city itself, and the villages of Ježevik, Bukovlje, Vranovci, Podcrkavlje, Podvinje, Kindrovo and others, where more than half the building stock was damaged. In the city, over 500 buildings were damaged, including almost all of the schools, and the Đuro Đaković and other factories. Impact The earthquake was felt as far away as Zagreb, Belgrade and Sarajevo, the major nearby cities of Yugoslavia. The earthquake caused a wide area of Slavonia to enter a period of several years of reconstruction, made longer because of a bad economic situation and the unfortunate circumstance of the country's resources already being spread thin on recovery from other significant earthquakes.Josipović Batorek 2013 186Josipović Batorek 2013 195 See also 1962 Makarska earthquakes 1963 Skopje earthquake 1969 Banja Luka earthquake List of earthquakes in 1964 List of earthquakes in Croatia References Sources https://hrcak.srce.hr/en/320481 Školski vjesnik: Journal for Pedagogic Theory and Practice 73 1 2024 The causes and mechanism of earthquakes in Croatia in the modern period - An educational perspective Franica Laus Nikola Glamuzina https://hrcak.srce.hr/en/200144 hr Zbornik Muzeja Đakovštine 11 1 2013 Potres u Đakovštini 1964. godine Slađana Josipović Batorek Category:Earthquakes in Croatia Dilj Dilj earthquake Category:Earthquakes in Yugoslavia Dilj earthquake Category:History of Slavonia