1996 Ston–Slano earthquake

Strong earthquake in Dalmatia, Croatia April 2022 1996 Ston–Slano earthquake Ston, goticky kostel poskozeny zemetresenim r. 1997.jpg Small church in the Gothic style with a missing bell tower The Church of St. Blasius was damaged in the earthquake Croatia 1996-09-05 20:44:08 984504 usp0007pfj 1996 09 05 y 22:44 CEST 6.0 w y6.0 L y5.6 b y 11 km mi 0 on 42.77 N 17.94 E region:HR_type:event inline,title Ston–Slano Fault Zone Southern Dalmatia (Dubrovnik–Neretva County, Split–Dalmatia County) 8 8 0.643 g Yes 5.5 w y 17 SepSton 1996 usp0007q1x M 5.5 – 2 km NW of Podgora, Croatia No deaths, several injuriesLepan Štefančić Suzana Potres u Stonu 1996. razrušio pola starog grada, najrazorniji u povijesti onaj dubrovački https://www.vecernji.hr/vijesti/potres-u-stonu-1996-razrusio-pola-starog-grada-najrazorniji-u-povijesti-onaj-dubrovacki-1387789 Večernji list 10 April 2022 hr 22 March 2020M 6.0 – 9 km ESE of Podgora, Croatia https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usp0007pfj/executive 2022-04-11 United States Geological Survey en-UK Markušić Herak Ivančić Sović 1998Govorčin Herak Matoš Pribičević 2020Herak Allegretti Herak Kuk 2010 496 __NOTOC__ On 5 September 1996 at 22:44 local time (CEST, 20:44 UTC), southern Dalmatia, Croatia, was hit by a strong earthquake of moment magnitude 6.0. The epicentre was near the coastline of the Adriatic Sea, close to the village of Slano, roughly 15 km northwest of Dubrovnik. The worst damage was of intensity VIII on the Medvedev–Sponheuer–Karnik scale, occurring in the epicentral area, but also another 25 km northwest, at the isthmus of the Pelješac peninsula, around the old town of Ston.Markušić Herak Ivančić Sović 1998 95-99 Damage Three villages were completely destroyed, and there was damage in much of southern Dalmatia, up to Zagvozd and Grabovac.Markušić Herak Ivančić Sović 1998 95-99 About 1,400 buildings were damaged and 474 rendered uninhabitable in the epicentral area. Cracks of up to 10 cm in 0 in width appeared in the Walls of Ston.Govorčin Herak Matoš Pribičević 2020 1 Some of the destroyed buildings had been weakened by a L4.7 earthquake off Mljet in July 1995.Markušić Herak Ivančić Sović 1998 94, 98 Fortunately, there were no fatalities. However, several people were injured, and more than 2,000 were displaced according to the United States Geological Survey. According to the Croatian Radiotelevision, there were no injuries. Landslides and collapsed structures blocked the roads to the villages of Mravinca, Trnova and Podimoć.Markušić Herak Ivančić Sović 1998 98-99 One of the aftershocks temporarily blocked the Adriatic Highway, the principal thoroughfare of the Dubrovnik region. Stanovnici dubrovačkog područja prisjetili se 1996. https://vijesti.hrt.hr/hrvatska/dubrovnik-se-jucer-zatresao-evo-kako-je-to-bilo-1996-860683 Croatian Radiotelevision 12 April 2022 hr 25 February 2021 Massive boulders were dislodged and rolled down the mountain, in one case colliding with a house. The earthquake reduced groundwater levels, and created a submarine spring between Ston and Doli, where the emitted soil and mud temporarily turned the sea red.Markušić Herak Ivančić Sović 1998 98-99 The town of Ston took about a decade to recover from the effects of the earthquake.Herak Allegretti Herak Kuk 2010 484 Earthquake This was the largest earthquake with an epicentre in the Dubrovnik area since the violent 1667 Dubrovnik earthquake, and the peak horizontal acceleration (PGA) of 0.643 g measured at the Ston saltworks remains the highest observed in Croatia.Govorčin Herak Matoš Pribičević 2020 1Herak Allegretti Herak Kuk 2010 496 The significant degree of soil amplification in Ston caused high PGA values of up to 0.313 g in some of the aftershocks as well.Herak Allegretti Herak Kuk 2010 496 The rupture began on the reverse Slano Fault or possibly on the Pelješac Fault,Govorčin Herak Matoš Pribičević 2020 17 beginning 4.5 km from Slano and continuing for about 20 km northwestwards to Ston, where the ground displacement reached 38 cm in. Multiple faults were activated during the earthquake. The shock was felt up to 400 km away from the epicentre, and was followed by more than 1,800 aftershocks over the course of a year.Govorčin Herak Matoš Pribičević 2020 1, 2 Aftershocks + Significant aftershocks Date Time (UTC) M I Depth Ref. Reference 5 September 0509 21:43 4.9 10.8 km mi on Govorčin Herak Matoš Pribičević 2020 8 7 September 0709 05:45 4.5 8.1 km mi on Govorčin Herak Matoš Pribičević 2020 8 9 September 0909 15:57 5.3 7 VII 10.5 km mi on Govorčin Herak Matoš Pribičević 2020 2, 8 17 September 1709 13:45 5.4Govorčin Herak Matoš Pribičević 2020 25.5 7 VII 10.0 km mi on 20 October 2010 15:00 4.6 8.7 km mi on Govorčin Herak Matoš Pribičević 2020 8 See also List of earthquakes in 1996 List of earthquakes in Croatia 2020 Petrinja earthquake References Sources Markušić Snježana Herak Davorka Ivančić Ines Sović Ivica Herak Marijan Prelogović Eduard Seismicity of Croatia in the period 1993–1996 and the Ston-Slano earthquake of 1996 Geofizika 1 December 1998 15 1 83–101 https://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=clanak&id_clanak_jezik=27542&lang=en 10 April 2022 0352-3659 Govorčin Marin Herak Marijan Matoš Bojan Pribičević Boško Vlahović Igor Constraints on Complex Faulting during the 1996 Ston–Slano (Croatia) Earthquake Inferred from the DInSAR, Seismological, and Geological Observations Remote Sensing 4 April 2020 12 7 1157 10.3390/rs12071157 2020RemS...12.1157G https://res.mdpi.com/d_attachment/remotesensing/remotesensing-12-01157/article_deploy/remotesensing-12-01157.pdf 10 April 2022 free Herak Marijan Allegretti Ivo Herak Davorka Kuk Krešimir Kuk Vlado Marić Krešimir Markušić Snježana Stipčević Josip HVSR of ambient noise in Ston (Croatia): comparison with theoretical spectra and with the damage distribution after the 1996 Ston-Slano earthquake Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering June 2010 8 3 483–499 10.1007/s10518-009-9121-x 2010BuEE....8..483H 109901299 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/226707630 External links 984504 Category:Earthquakes in Croatia Ston-Slano Ston-Slano earthquake Category:History of Dalmatia Ston-Slano earthquake Category:1996 disasters in Europe