**7. Conclusion**

This analysis shows that compression of terrain happened before each earthquake. Two to nine days after compression, an earthquake occurred. Only once, on the 29th of July 2016, was there no earthquake after compaction of soil, because the soil layers did not crack.

We determined the daily changes in the distance between GNSS stations in the vicinity of Skopje for January 2016. The graph of the daily changes for January is shown in **Figure 7**. This graph shows that on the 12th of January 2016, there was a relatively large extension of Skoplje-Tetovo and Tetovo-Kumanovo distances. These shifts were about 3.5 cm in length. The spaces between the plates were large, but after the collision of the plates, the direction of the plates' motion changed. Nine days after the compression in January, a smaller earthquake with a magnitude of 2.0 on the Richter scale occurred (**Figure 7**).
