On 22 March, an intense earthquake (5.4 on the Richter scale) hit the city of Zagreb, at 6:24 AM and was followed by multiple aftershocks with the largest being a event at 7:01 AM. The earthquake could also be felt across the rest of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Slovenia, and Austria. It was the strongest earthquake in Zagreb since the 1880 earthquake. The same day, 29 new cases of COVID-19 were reported, including the first case in Čazma; a woman who had come back from Turkey.