ZAGREB, 3 January, 2021 – Of the 19 cities and municipalities in Sisak-Moslavina County, Petrinja, Glina, Sisak and Lekenik suffered the biggest damage, and Donji Kukuzari, Sunja, Hrvatska Kostajnica, Majur, Dvor, Topusko, Gvozd and Marinska Ves sustained extensive damage in the 29 December quake.
The county prefect Ivo Zinic explained on Sunday that so far, the damage was reported on 8,928 buildings and structures.
Of them, 20% are buildings completely destroyed or out of use anymore. Also, a quarter of the inspected buildings will need additional checks, and 54% of buildings checked by experts received a green label, which means that they can be used.
Reports on damaged buildings are still being received and the number of destroyed and damaged buildings will definitely rise, the prefect said at a news conference.
We have set up five mobile teams that are visiting settlements and villages to establish a state of affairs and see what the population needs, he added.
“A difficult situation is ahead of us, people are depressed, we will also organise psychological assistance,” Zinic said.
825 small businesses, a third of family-run farms suffer damage by quake
Of 2,000 small businesses in the county, 825 have reported extensive damage, he said.
Furthermore, 700 companies and 3,000 out of 9,000 family-run farms have also sustained damage, he said.
When it comes to educational institutions, out of the 13 secondary schools in the county, six are unusable, and a preschool institution in Petrinja was destroyed.
Retirement homes in the area were also evacuated.
All healthcare institutions are providing services, although some of them are now placed in containers.
On 29 December, the earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale, that hit the area of Petrinja, some 50 kilometres south of Zagreb, killed seven people in the county, and a number of people were injured.
“The intensity of this destructive earthquake has been estimated at VII-IX degrees on the EMS scale. The quake was felt across the country. Large-scale damage is expected,” the Croatian Seismology Service said on its Twitter profile immediately after the quake.
