no casualties and little damage
A series of earthquake tremorswith magnitudes between 3.6 and 4.1, they registered yesterday from Genoa to Catania, with small ones aftershocks tonight too in Liguria and in the Tyrrhenian Sea. Fear in Emilia-RomagnaMarche, Abruzzo and Sicily, but no victims or significant damage were reported.
In Emilia the earth shook around 5.50 pm in the Apennine area on the border with the province of Lucca. The shock was felt on the Emilian Apennines, but also in Tuscany. There is none among the earthquake of magnitude 3.9 occurred in the Marche, that of magnitude 4.1 in Liguria and that of magnitude 3.6 that hit Sicily, in the Etna area: “there is no relationship, the distances between the places in where the earthquakes occurred are five kilometers long so that there can be a connection “, told ANSA the seismologist Carlo Meletti, of the Pisa section of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (Ingv). Of the three earthquakes, the deepest (24 kilometers) is that which took place in the Marchein Folignano, in the province of Ascoli Piceno
The shock that occurred in the Genoese area a statue was knocked down in the churchyard in Pieve Alta. This is confirmed by the governor Giovanni Toti. “From an initial monitoring – said the president – the earthquake damaged the church of Pieve Alta, and a statue collapsed in the churchyard. The important thing is that at the moment there are no injuries”. There are about fifteen interventions by the fire brigade in Genoa for detachment of plaster or small crepes on the walls after the shock. No structural problems or dangers emerged from the inspections by the fire brigade.
For the beautiful week Meanwhile, an intense disturbance is on the waywith rains in the North e in part of the Center, especially in Tuscany. From tomorrow 5 days of severe bad weather are coming with the risk of storms.