Listen to the BBC Radio 4 Interview with the Order of Malta. Geological aspects [ edit ] The quakes occurred in a seismic gap which is located between the areas hit by the 2016 August earthquake and the one in Umbria and Marche of 1997 . However it was very shallow (estimated at around 4km) so nearly all of the energy reached the surface and it was a long (over 20 seconds) movement so the shaking lasted a long time. It was followed by 40 strong aftershocks.. More than 250 people were killed by the earthquake. Images from before and after an earthquake struck central Italy show the huge scale of the disaster. An earthquake, measuring 6.2 ± 0.016 on the moment magnitude scale, hit Central Italy on 24 August 2016 at 03:36:32 CEST (01:36 UTC).. Its epicentre was close to Accumoli, with its hypocentre at a depth of 4 ± 1 km, approximately 75 km (47 mi) southeast of Perugia and 45 km (28 mi) north of L'Aquila, in an area near the borders of the Umbria, Lazio, Abruzzo and Marche regions.


A mass funeral is held in Italy for 35 of the 290 people known to have died in the Italian earthquake on Wednesday. Images from before and after an earthquake struck central Italy show the huge scale of the disaster.

Image caption Some buildings in central Visso were damaged . Its epicentre was close to Accumoli. Wednesday's earthquakes were felt across central Italy, including in the capital, Rome, …

Some 80 aftershocks have been reported since. Then I fell asleep and all of a sudden I was on the floor and the walls around me were caving in. That concludes our live coverage of the earthquake in Italy for now.
Its epicentre was close to Accumoli , with its hypocentre at a depth of 4 ± 1 km, [2] approximately 75 km (47 mi) southeast of Perugia and 45 km (28 mi) north of L'Aquila , in an area near the borders of the Umbria , Lazio , Abruzzo and Marche regions. As the effort continues to find people buried beneath the rubble in the Italian earthquake, extraordinary tales of survival have emerged. The death toll in the Italian earthquake reaches 241 as rescuers continue efforts to find survivors in the rubble of Amatrice and nearby small towns.

The number of dead from the 24 August earthquake in central Italy rises to 297 after two more people die of their injuries. resident ida spagnoli, speaking to the bbc I was in my living room on the couch, sleeping, when I heard the first sounds, the first tremors coming at 11 o'clock, and it was quite frightening.

The number of dead from the 24 August earthquake in central Italy rises to 297 after two more people die of their injuries.

At least three British citizens were among those killed in the earthquake in central Italy, an official from the town of Amatrice tells the BBC. Magnitude of October 2016 Central Italy earthquakes. An earthquake, measuring 6.2 ± 0.016 on the moment magnitude scale, hit Central Italy on 24 August 2016 at 03:36:32 CEST (01:36 UTC). The 2016 Central Italy earthquake was a natural disaster that struck Central Italy on 24 August 2016 at 03:36 CEST. A powerful 6.6-magnitude earthquake rocked central Italy on Sunday, injuring at least 20 people, in the strongest tremor to hit the country in more than three decades. The Italy earthquake was measured at 6.2 on the modern moment magnitude scale that goes from 1-9.5(so far); so it was not a very strong earthquake. La Repubblica photo journalist Paolo Brera said the utter devastation caused by the earthquake was comparable with the 2009 L'Aquila quake, … The BBC's James Reynolds describes how it felt Hundreds of aftershocks have rocked devastated areas of central Italy, hampering search efforts after a deadly earthquake. The BBC's James Reynolds describes how it felt Hundreds of aftershocks have rocked devastated areas of central Italy, hampering search efforts after a deadly earthquake. The quake was felt from Bologna in the north of Italy to Naples in the south.