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Croatia, Zagreb earthquake damage assessment (2020-03-31)

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Activation date: 2020-03-31

Event type: Earthquake

Activation reason:

CEMS Risk and Recovery Standard was activated on behalf of the City of Zagreb (Office of Emergency Management) with the objective of assessing damages related to the earthquake that hit the area of Zagreb (Croatia) on the 22 March 2020. Preliminary reports and information coming from the area indicated heavily damaged roofs and assets in the City centre.The products generated in the framework of this activation aim to provide an updated reference dataset over the city of Zagreb, a detailed damage assessment on roofs and chimneys following the earthquake, and  a reconstruction monitoring one month later.Proposed solution and resultsAn up-to-date reference dataset (i.e. buildings, facilities, transportation) over the City of Zagreb and produced from two pre-event optical VHR satellite images acquired in 2019 (image below).Detailed damage assessment based on the visual interpretation of post-event drone footage and optical VHR satellite images (on 03.04.2020 and 06.04.2020 respectively). Examples of damaged buildings are shown in the image below.Reconstruction monitoring performed one month later, from a second post-event optical satellite image acquired on 04.05.2020. Examples of reconstruction status for damaged buildings are visible in the image below.

How to cite

European Commission, Joint Research Centre (2026): Croatia, Zagreb earthquake damage assessment (2020-03-31). [Dataset] doi: 10.2905/JRC.G4YG7J8 PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/0f79c223-1225-4f9b-91dc-1ce948e1ff2b

Keywords

CEMSCopernicusCopernicus Emergency Management ServiceCopernicus Emergency Management Service Risk and Recovery Mapping ActivationCopernicus EMSCopernicus ServiceCroatiaEarthquakeEmergencyEmergency ManagementEMSN074HRVMappingRisk and Recovery Mapping

Data access

Copernicus EMS Risk and Recovery Mapping Activation [EMSN074]: Croatia, Zagreb earthquake damage assessment (2020-03-31)
Esri File Geodatabase

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  • Maps produced in scope of this Copernicus EMS Risk and Recovery Mapping activation downloadable as georeferenced PDFs, TIFFs and JPEGs together with relevant geodatabase (GDB) and complete final report as well.

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Additional information

Published by
European Commission, Joint Research Centre
Contact email
jrc-data-support (at) ec.europa.eu
Update frequency
unknown

The event occurs with unknown regularity.

Language(s)
English

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Data theme(s)
Regions and cities

dataset theme covering the domains of regions and cities, where regions is defined by political geography units including sovereign states, subnational administrative areas, and multinational groupings, and cities are characterised as large human settlements
Science and technology

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Issued date
2020-03-31
Created date
02 Mar 2026 17:07
Modified date
12 Apr 2021 04:26
Landing page
https://emergency.copernicus.eu/EMSN074 
Dataset identifier
http://data.europa.eu/89h/0f79c223-1225-4f9b-91dc-1ce948e1ff2b
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