The earthquake, three strong shocks in an hour in the Centr of Italy in the knees for the snow emergency – The Republic

Three strong earthquakes in an hour, all above magnitude 5, all in the centr of Italy, between L’aquila and Rieti, still close to the town of Amatrice. The places which these days are already in full snow emergency. The first shock was felt at around 10.25 between the regions of Lazio, Abruzzo and le Marche, and it was also felt to Rome to Florence Naples in Emilia. The magnitude was 5.3, according to estimates by the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (Ingv), and is made between L’aquila and Rieti, in a depth of 10 km. After the first shock is str ong, there have been four other slightly later with a magnitude of more high of 3.2, then, at 11,14, and the second strong hit, with a magnitude of around 5.5.

All the stations of the A24 motorway, which connects Rome, L’aquila and Teramo, have been closed to check for the presence of any damage. He does know the company Strada dei parchi. According to the surveys Ingv the three quakes have occurred about 30 kilometres south-west of Ascoli Piceno and 110 km north of Rome.

“The shock was felt in a huge way, when we are faced with a snow emergency that 48 hours leave, without electricity, a quarter of the city. It is a very complicated situation, we have fractions with a meter and a half of snow.” So the mayor of Ascoli Piceno Guido Castelli, reached by phone from La7 and Sky Tg24, after the first earthquake. “The state we have no reports of damage, but already this night we witnessed a series of collapses to the snow, he continued, Castelli -, we fear that some of the structures with the shock have been no further signs of wear and damage. We are trying to break through the wall of snow, also for the transport of medicinal products. The situation requires great lucidity and ability to manage the emergency”. Then after the other two shocks: “Launch an Sos, emergency monstrous”.

students from The different schools of Rieti, have been made out as a precaution, while in Rome, among the hundreds of calls to the switchboard, the students in some schools of Rome fell in the courtyard as a result of the shock. Many reports and requests for information come to the emergency number 112, but so far would not have received any request of assistance. And’ what is learned by the fire and also if the checks are still in progress.

The Railways of the State have decided to stop trains, for verification, on the railway Terni-Rieti-L’aquila-Sulmona (up to 17) and the Sulmona-Avezzano (up to 19). They are organizing rides for bus replacement. In L’aquila, the employees of many companies have gone out temporarily, as expected in these cases, to allow the first checks. For the snow that is falling from the night, many citizens have preferred not to leave their homes. People in the street to Teramo. The affected areas are the same overwhelmed by the shock of the 24 August last year, followed by the next earthquake of the 26th of October.

To Acquasanta, the mayor raises the alarm. “I don’t know if the strong shock of today have done other damage, I know that from this morning we have a series of black-out, the elderly stuck in the house by the snow, which reached a metre and a half of height, and entire hamlets and isolated: Pian dell’oro, Farno, Agore, Pool, Pito, Venamartello. We need heavy equipment to clear the streets, now” is the call of the Holy Stangoni. The municipality is one of the closest in the Marche region at the epicenter of the earthquake today, with the vast majority of the inhabitants are displaced along the coast after the earthquake of the 24th of August last. In the mountains, however, were the breeders: “live in the container, heated electrically, and, therefore, are now in the frost.” The mobile phones, “when they work, are the only means of communication”. Stangoni calls for aid arrive as quickly as possible: “we don’t need di ggers, but snow”.

“It’s a situation that is quite complicated. We are receiving the returns from the territory, of course, the earthquake was felt clearly on the whole of the central part up to the Capital. At the end of the checks we will be able to tell if we’ve had particularly difficult situations or not,” he told Skytg24 the head of the civil Protection Fabrizio Curcio. “In that area it is snowing now for several hours, in an uninterrupted fashion, and it will be snowing again for the next few hours”.

“it’s the same fault system activated on the 24th of August, but to generate the earthquake today is a different segment”, said the Bend in the sismologa Paola Montone, of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology.

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