[1] The geology of the epicentral area is karstic with steep mountains and valleys, characteristic of the Outer Dinarides.

An Ottoman fortification constructed out of large stone blocks, then home of the local judge, partially collapsed, but no one was harmed.

[2] In Stolac, many houses were hit and several inhabitants lightly injured by earthquake-induced rockfalls.

In the village of Berkovići, a boulder rolling down the mountainside destroyed the house of a local farmer, killing two of his children.

The partly subterranean river Vrijeka [hr] stopped after the shock, then began flowing out of a different cave twenty-four hours later.