Earthquake measuring 4.3 strikes off southern coast of Italy
AN EARTHQUAKE measuring 4.3 in magnitude has struck off the coast of southern Italy, according to country’s national geology and geophysics institute.
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The quake was followed several hours later by magnitude 2.3 and 2.5 tremors in the central Abruzzo region and a magnitude 2.3 aftershock in Emilia-Romagna to the north.
The quake off Calabria’s northeast coast - the “toe” of Italy - was registered at a depth of 141 miles while the Abruzzo quakes were recorded in the province of L’Aquila 1.2 miles northeast of Barete and 1.2 miles northwest of Camposto.
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A fourth quake rocked Emilia-Romagna’s province of Modena with an epicentre 1.2 miles southwest of the town of Camposanto.
There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage to buildings or infrastructure caused by the quakes.
Several major earthquakes have hit Italy’s seismic centre-north and south in recent years.
Five strong quakes have struck central Italy’s mountainous spine since August 2016, killing 300 people.
They have left thousands of people homeless and caused more that £21 billion of damage to homes and other buildings including medieval churches as well as to agriculture.
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Two powerful temors hit Emilia-Romagna in May 2012, killing 25 people and wreaking billions of euros of damage to the region.
In 2009, a magnitude 5.9 tremor hit L’Aquila and surrounding villages, killing 309 people, leaving around 70,000 homeless and damaging thousands of buildings including medieval churches and art treasures.
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