Powerful earthquake was felt at dawn in the region of its borders of Montenegro and Bosnias, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS).

The epicenter of the earthquake, power 5.4 points —the German geodynamic institute GFZ earlier estimated it to be 5.6 degrees— was located in western Montenegro, about thirty kilometers in a straight line from Mount Nixic, or about 25 kilometers from the Bosnian town of Biletsa.

So far dno casualties or damages have been reported.

According to the USGS, the focal depth was shallow, just 7.6 kilometers. The earthquake was felt in Sarajevo and all over the western Balkans, an area where high seismicity is recorded.

A magnitude 5.7 earthquake occurred in the same area in April 2022, killing one person and injuring several others in Stolac, Bosnia.

The previous strong earthquake in the Western Balkans (magnitude 6.4) was recorded on 29 December 2020 in Croatia, in the Petrinia region (central), where seven people had lost their lives and hundreds of buildings and houses had been destroyed.

In March 2020the Croatian capital Zagreb was rocked by a 5.3-magnitude earthquake that had caused widespread damage.

And, in November 2019, over 50 people died in Albania after a magnitude 6.4 earthquake also left thousands homeless.