A magnitude 5.5 earthquake was recorded at 3:06 local time (4:06 in Italy) in northwestern Montenegro, not far from the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina.
According to data from the Italian National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) and the US geological monitoring service USGS, the earthquake had a hypocenter approximately 10 kilometers deep and an epicenter 21 km from the city of Plužine.
The Montenegrin public broadcaster RTCG states that the earthquake was felt throughout the country on the Balkan peninsula but that at the moment there is no news of any particular damage to people or things.
The Hydrometeorological and Seismological Institute (Zhms) of Montenegro specifies, however, that the earthquake may have caused some material damage in the area of the epicentre, identified more precisely five kilometers southwest of Carodje.
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