Last year there were five earthquakes in Slovakia, four of them with an epicenter in the Slovak Republic. Three were at the water reservoir Veľká Domaša and one in the Považský Inovec mountains. This stems from information on the state of monitoring of the geological factors of the environment, which the government took on Wednesday (April 2).
“The most reported macroseismic observations (109 observations from 27 municipalities) were for the earthquake With the epicenter at the Great Domaša water reservoir of 22 February 2024 with magnitude 2.7, ” was stated by the Ministry of the Environment in the material.
It also points out that in the last two decades, due to climate change, it has gradually occurred at different times and In several parts of Slovakia to activate over 700 landslides. Many directly threatened the lives and property of the inhabitants and claimed a statement of an emergency situation. Therefore, in 2024, the 20 locations were monitored by three basic types of slope movements – Sliding (12 sites), crawling (three sites) and signs of activation of ruthless movements (four sites). A specific object of evaluation of the stability of the environment is the location of the stabilization embankment in Handl.
“In terms of monitoring of neotectonic movements, the results of measurements in 2024 confirmed the continuation of the long -term right -hand shear shift in the Branisko tunnel, which is manifested by the expansion of the crack, ” The Envirorezort also claims.
At the same time, according to the ministry, slope deformations in the cadastral areas of municipalities and towns were activated last year, namely Kozelník, Galanta, Štiavnické Bane, Dolné Semerovce, Rudina, Lednica, Hričovské Podhradie, Likavka, Liptovská Osada, Dolny Kubín, Strečno, Žilina-Obchica, Košice (Bankov) Žilina-Budatín, Ružomberok-Biely Potok, Čičava, Čavoj, Ubľa, Ľubietová-Zábava, Domaniža, Zubrohlava, High Tatras, Kremná, Ždiar-Monkova Dolina.
As part of the solution of the announced emergency situation, related to precipitation in September, they judged in the Bratislava region of the kitchen, Pernek, Devín, Devínska Nová Ves, Stupava-Debnáreň, Stupava-Lintavy, Marianka, Borinka and Bernolákovo.
