Marko Budić

Hrvatski geološki institut · Department of Geology

The most recent major earthquake series struck near Petrinja (December 29th 2020 M 6.2), and triggered extensive ground failures in the wider area of Petrinja, Sisak and Glina. Coseismic ground failures including subsidence dolines, liquefaction and landslides have been documented over a large area by various experts and teams. These data are store...

Istrian Flysch was deposited during the Eocene in the Dinaric foredeep and is composed of hemipelagic marls and various gravity flow deposits. The latter are predominantly 5-40 cm thick turbidites, developed mostly as laminated and cross-rippled sandstone beds (Tb-e, Tc-e and Td-e Bouma sequences). In addition to the turbidites, there are deposits...

The Neogene formations at the marginal parts of the Pannonian Basin in Croatia include numerous quartz sand deposits. Vranić sand pit has been considered to be one of them. It is located at the southern foothills of the Papuk mountain in the eastern part of the country. The deposition of quartz sand during the Miocene and Pliocene in this area was...

The 29 December 2020, Mw 6.4 Petrinja earthquake nucleated at a depth of~10 km in the Sisak-Moslavina County in northern Croatia,~6 km WSW of the Petrinja town. Focal mechanisms, aftershocks distribution, and preliminary Sentinel-1 InSAR interferogram suggest that the NW-SE right-lateral strike-slip Pokupsko-Petrinja fault was the source of this ev...

After the earthquake of 29/12/2020 in Petrinja (ML6.2, ImaxVIII-IX EMS), an attempt was made to characterize the active structure associated with the earthquake. As a first step towards this goal, we performed a geomorphological analysis in order to contribute to the identification and characterization of the surface expression of the active Pokups...

Srednji Jadran je predgorje dvaju orogenih sustava – Dinarida na sjeveroistoku i Apenina na jugozapadu. Osim velike debljine naslaga, to područje obilježava i specifična predgorska tektonika te brojne solne strukture. Te halokinetske strukture različito su prikazivane na objavljenim preglednim kartama i ilustracijama geoloških profila, a tek sporad...

The occurrence of extensive liquefaction during the 2020 Petrinja earthquake in the epi-central area raises many questions, notably the geometries of sedimentary bodies in depth. In the fluvial plains of the Kupa, Glina and Sava rivers, many lines of sand ejecta and cracks at the surface are subparallel to the riverbanks in convex meanders and woul...

During the Petrinja earthquake sequence in December 2020, numerous liquefied sand ejections came to the surface along the Kupa, Sava and Glina rivers in Quaternary alluvial sediments. In October 2022, we performed field investigation in the epicentral area, involving geotechnical and geophysical techniques, at different sites with sand ejecta or la...

Earthquakes and related coseismic effects at the surface, such as liquefaction and lateral spreading, can impact humans due to the resulting economic or social disruptions (e.g. slope and foundation failures, flotation of buried structures, etc.). In this respect, the 2020 Petrinja Mw6.4 earthquake (Croatia) provided many examples of liquefaction a...

On 29 December 2020, a shallow earthquake of magnitude Mw 6.4 struck northern Croatia, near the town of Petrinja, more than 24 hours after a strong foreshock (Ml 5). We formed a reconnaissance team of European geologists and engineers, from Croatia, Slovenia, France, Italy and Greece, rapidly deployed in the field to map the evidence of coseismic e...

A geological and speleological investigation was conducted in the famous Blue Cave (Modra špilja) and the Monk Seal Cave (Medvidina špilja) on Biševo Island (Croatia) to promote the island’s geoheritage through the new Visitor Centre. The island is mainly composed of Cretaceous to Paleogene neritic carbonates, which form the bedrock, whereas parts...

Geodetic benchmark displacement measurements following the 2020 Petrinjaearthquakein Croatia.