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Earthquake hits the Balkans

Thu, Jan 08 2009 16:04 CET

byNick Iliev

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A tremor with a magnitude 4.8 on the Richter scale was detected at 2.05pm, with the epicentre being 230 km west/southwest of Sofia, beyond the Bulgarian border. There are no reported fatalities or structural damage as of yet, the Ministry of Emergency Situations has reported, as told by Dnevnik daily.

The tremor has not been felt on the territory of Bulgaria, said the director of the geophysical institute at the Bulgarian Academy of Science, BAS, Nikolay Mishev. He explained that the epicentre was at Gostivar, close to the town of Tetovo, Macedonia.

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