What An Absolute Nightmare,

it must be for the people living in and around,

Petrinja, Sisak, and Glina in Croatia, photograph Reddit, on December 29, 2020, Croatia recorded its strongest earthquake ever, measured at 6.4 points on the Richter magnitude scale, the quake directly affected 116,000 people, mainly in the cities of Petrinja, Sisak, and Glina, and the rural areas around them. Over 35,000 homes and 4,550 businesses were damaged by the strong tremor and its many aftershocks, and five fatalities attributed to the destructive natural phenomenon were reported. Now, over two months since the earthquake, people in the affected area are even more worried about the sink holes that keep appearing,

according to reports by people in the village of Mečenčani, located about 25 km from the epicenter of the earthquake, the first sinkholes appeared two days before the quake, but 10 days after the natural disaster, there were 15 sinkholes in the village, as well as another 15 in the surrounding area,

Tomo Medved, the head of the task force dealing with the aftermath of the 29 December earthquake, told Croatia Radio that the number of sinkholes in the Kukuruzari Municipality, in the area around  Petrinja, had increased from 40 last week to more than 70,

“This is now a really big number, large expansion, and we are faced with the challenge of finding a solution… so that the lives of the people living here are not in any danger,” Medved said, adding that many of the sinkholes were in the immediate vicinity of family homes, some of the holes investigated by the task force deployed in the affected area are several meters wide, with the largest up to 30 m across. The deepest sinkhole is about 15 meters deep, but most are filled with water which makes estimating their depth very difficult,

and if sinkholes were not bad enough, in Norway eight houses have been swept into the sea in the Norwegian Arctic after a powerful landside near the town of Alta, a local managed to capture some of the event on camera, the video, featured in Altaposten, shows the sheer power of the land movement. One local described how he heard a bang in the loft of his cabin and assumed someone was in the building. “I ran for my life,” he said, once the situation became clear, now for the good news, no one died or was injured in the landslip above, and let us hope it stays that way.