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Chief Secretary of the Interior, Commissar Kalin Georgiev, has assured that there is no cause for panic after the quake that struck Western Bulgaria Saturday afternoon. Photo by BGNES
Chief Secretary of the Interior, Commissar Kalin Georgiev, has assured that there is no cause for panic after the quake that struck Western Bulgaria Saturday afternoon.
Georgiev told journalists that teams of police officers and firefighters had been dispatched to the areas where the jolt had been felt strongest to prevent tensions.
The quake had a magnitude of 4.5 on the Richter scale, according to the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre.
The jolt struck at 3.52 p.m. at a depth of 10 kilometers and was epicentered 7 km southeast of Pernik and 19 kilometers west of Sofia, very near to the epicenter of the 5.8-magnitude jolt which hit the region in the small hours of May 22.
No casualties or damages have been reported so far.
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