1880 Zagreb earthquake

Strong earthquake in Croatia 1880 Zagreb earthquake yes 1880 11 09 yes 07:33 Zagreb Cathedral interior 1880.jpg The damage to Zagreb Cathedral's interior was photographed by Ivan Standl. A skeleton is visible in a crypt Croatia 6.3 ML 45.90 N 16.10 E inline,title type:event Zagreb, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia,Austria-Hungary Medvednica Fault Zone VIII – IX 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 and spurred a renovation program in the city's historic center. It remained the most severe quake to hit the city for 140 years, until the 2020 Zagreb earthquake. Events According to the Zagreb Meteorological Station data, the earthquake struck at 07:33 AM CET and was followed by a series of tremors of smaller intensity. Contemporary records say that 3,800 outgoing tickets were sold at the Zagreb Main Station within the first 24 hours of the initial earthquake, as many locals sought to leave the city for Vienna, Ljubljana, Graz, and other Austro-Hungarian cities in the vicinity of Zagreb.9 November 2023 On this day in 1880: Zagreb hit by its biggest earthquake https://www.croatiaweek.com/on-this-day-in-1880-zagreb-hit-by-its-biggest-earthquake/ 26 July 2025 Croatia Week 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. The Zagreb-based Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts (JAZU) commissioned a survey of damaged buildings by prominent local photographer Ivan Standl.Damjanovic Dragan Photo Albums of the 1880 Zagreb Earthquake https://www.academia.edu/9981745 VisibileInvisibile. Percepire la Città Tra Descrizioni e Omissioni. VI. Città Immaginate: Sguardi Sulla Città Contemporanea, Pages 1833 – 1845 The most prominent building damaged was Zagreb Cathedral, which then underwent a thorough reconstruction led by Hermann Bollé.Hrust Lovro The Academy and the Great Zagreb earthquake of 1880 https://sgallery.hazu.hr/izlozba/svecanost-otvorenja-1884/en/akademija-i-veliki-zagrebacki-potres-1880-godine-en/ 4 November 2025 Croatian Academy of Sciences and ArtsZagrebačka nadbiskupija - History https://www.zg-nadbiskupija.hr/history-22099/22099 26 July 2025 zg-nadbiskupija.hr However, the damage brought by the earthquake spurred construction and many historic buildings in the Lower Town area of the city were built in the following years. In art Višnja Stahuljak hr wrote a historical novel Potres ("Earthquake") about the earthquake.Stahuljak Višnja Potres Earthquake 2009 Naklada Ljevak Zagreb 978-953-303-076-0 See also 2020 Zagreb earthquake List of earthquakes in Croatia List of historical earthquakes References Bibliography Prošlost grada Zagreba Horvat Rudolf 1992 August Cesarec Zagreb 978-86-393-0267-2 hr 66–71 The illustrated history of natural disasters Zagreb (Agram) Earthquake, Croatia, 1880 J. Kozák V. Cermák 2010 151–153 10.1007/978-90-481-3325-3_33 978-90-481-3324-6 Further reading http://31.147.204.208/clanci/1981_Prelogovic%20&%20Cvijanovic_735.pdf Potres u Medvednici 1880. godine Prelogović Eduard Cvijanović Dragutin Geološki vjesnik 34 1981 137–146 hr 22 April 2020 External links Contemporary photographs of damaged buildings at Kultura.hr hr Potresi na zagrebačkom području hr Zagreb cathedral in the 1880 earthquake and its present day renovation hr Potres 1880.g. Category:History of Zagreb Category:Earthquakes in Croatia Zagreb Earthquake, 1880 Zagreb Earthquake, 1880 Category:November 1880 in Europe Category:Earthquakes in the Kingdom of Croatia (Habsburg) Category:Kingdom of Hungary (1867–1918) Category:Natural disasters in Zagreb