Paper presents the analysis of the Croatian earthquake catalogue (CEC) for the period from 373 bc to 2004. The CEC is estimated to be complete for events with ML ≥4.0 since 1900 and for events with ML≥3.2 for the last three decades. The coastal part of Croatia (the Dinarides) is the most seismically active, because of tectonic processes related to the collision of the Adriatic Platform and the Dinarides. The northern part of Croatia (the Pannonian Basin) is characterized by rare occurrences of large earthquakes and thus being typical of intraplate seismicity.
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Markušić, S. (2008). Seismicity of Croatia. In: Husebye, E.S. (eds) Earthquake Monitoring and Seismic Hazard Mitigation in Balkan Countries. NATO Science Series: IV: Earth and Environmental Sciences, vol 81. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6815-7_5
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