A strong earthquake struck the northeastern region of Bulgaria at 10.49am, registering five on the Richter scale, Nikolai Miloshev has said, head of the geophysical institute at the Bulgarian Academy of Science, as quoted by the Focus news agency.
The tremor's epicentre was in the Black Sea, southeast of the Kaliakrna Horn, 63km southeast of Varna and two km beneath the surface of the sea. Seismologists are now working to determine how far and to what extent the earthquake was felt around the country.
According to Dnevnik daily, the earthquake had a magnitude of 4.7 on the Richter scale. People in the area have said the tremor was felt strongly in Dobrich, particularly in single family houses and even on lower floors of apartment blocks. Reports say that the tremor was horizontal.
There are no reported structural damages or injured people as a result of the tremor
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