On 22 March , an intense earthquake ( 5.4 on the Richter scale ) hit the city of Zagreb , at 6:24 AM ( CET ) and was followed by multiple smaller earthquakes ( the second with a magnitude of 5.0 and third a 3.7 on the Richter scale ) .
An intense earthquake hit Zagreb before 6:25 AM , during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Croatia .