This is also the first time an earthquake in Croatia were recorded by seismographs at Italian, German, British, Ukrainian, Russian and Slovenian seismic stations.

Regional plate tectonics are complex, and involve the motions of numerous microplates and regional-scale structures.

[3][4] The town of Turjaci, Košute, Čaporice, Gardun, Grab, Trilj, Vedrine and Vojnić suffered the most damage.

[5] Kišpatić (1899) states from the Report of the Presidency of the Dalmatian governments "that in all, 2,365 residential and commercial buildings were damaged, 5 parish houses and 2 churches were destroyed".

In Gardun, Košute, Trilj and Čaporice, half of all houses were destroyed, and over 40 were wounded.