Earthquake shakes Adriatic region – “I was scared to death’ Moderate earthquake in Montenegro felt in several countries. No major damage reported so far - those affected report being “afraid of death” A magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck Montenegro, the Balkan region and even Italy on Thursday (March 14) The earthquake had a magnitude of 5.6 on the Richter scale, as the European-Mediterranean Seismological Center (EMSC) announced on Twitter.