in the Tuscan
Florence , December 19, 2014 – 10:07
FLORENCE – Eighty shock in a few hours from Thursday night to Friday morning and Tuscany discovers the fear of the earthquake, with an earthquake swarm started in Chianti Thursday night, Friday and continued that he felt distinctly in Florence and Siena. Of the more than eighty shock and micro shocks recorded from Thursday, the strongest was at 11.36 on Friday morning with a magnitude of 4.1, followed at 12:36 by a 3.3. Epicenter between 7.1 and 8.7 kilometers deep. In the night, at 1:06, another shock had clocked 3.5, 3.8 to 10:39, 11:33 to 3.0 and 3.2 at 13.09, the last of the strongest. The epicenter was located between the towns of Greve in Chianti, San Casciano in Val di Pesa and Tavarnelle in the province of Florence at a depth of 7.1 km. At Palazzo Vecchio mayor Dario Nardella has convened the Crisis Unit to take stock of the situation in Flore nce and province. The area is not new, however, historically, in swarms like this, they know and reassurance from the rooms of the Civil Protection. A slide in the archives, although the location of epicenters then was less precise, they are reported in 1700, 1812, 1895 and most recently in 1972.
Closed Palazzo Vecchio
Total stop sightseeing in Palazzo Vecchio, after the earthquakes. Groups of visitors await further decisions out of the monumental headquarters, in Piazza della Signoria. No order for evacuation of the building, but the employees of the Municipality can temporarily leave the offices, while the free access to the building was interdicted: Palazzo Vecchio enter only the people who have an appointment in the municipal offices. E ‘was activated the crisis unit of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, in close cooperation with the fire department, is proceeding through the technicians of local Superintendents out the necessary checks to ascertain any damage to cultural heritage.
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Earthquake in Florence and Siena, schools and offices evacuated
Fear in the streets
Several people in the Tuscan capital have left the buildings to take to the streets (WATCH THE VIDEO). Many phone calls to the fire brigade. Also present at the courthouse in Florence, in the north of the city, were invited to come out, as well as the office of the revenue which is rather closer to the center. In many schools of the province of Siena and Florence the boys were brought out by the schools. In Empoli, in Valdarno, Tavernelle, Barberino Val d’Elsa, Impruneta, San Casciano in Val di Pesa, Greve in Chianti and Certaldo, municipalities closest to the epicenter, but also in Montelupo Fiorentino, Montespertoli, Vinci, Capraia e Limite , Bagno a Ripoli and Figline Engraved schools were just closed by order of the mayor and the students made to go home. In San Giovanni Valdarno, nell’aretino, public offices were closed. In Prato, however, the abandonment of some schools was spontaneous. The palaces of the region were evacuated .
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The tremors in Tuscany
The seismologist
What underway in the Chianti area is an earthquake swarm, which is “impossible to predict how long.” He said the seismologist Alessandro Amato, of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology. “It is typical of a swarm, in fact, that a strong earthquake would follow a series of shocks weaker. It is a phenomenon similar to that recorded recently in other areas such as the Italian Pollino. ”
Pistoia
Schools evacuated for earthquake also in Pistoia. In high school Foreguerri-Vannucci, the students were taken out as a precaution, some were seized by panic. Students out of the classroom also by schools of Agliana and Lamporecchio. The ASL reports that were sent by the operations center 118 ambulances at some schools evacuated. Promptly intervened emergency vehicles with crews to reassure and assist students and to avoid moments of fear.
Siena
A roar of a few seconds that most objects shook his legs. Siena also was warned in a clear and unequivocal that the earthquake this morning epicenter the Florentine hills. Many citizens, frightened by the sudden noise, took to the streets, leaving workstations. Many others rushed to the windows to see what was happening. Fortunately there was no damage to people and property. The quake was also felt in several neighboring municipalities and in some more distant as San Gimignano. The famous Torre del Mangia overlooking Piazza del Campo and the Civic Museum of Siena have been closed to visitors. With a measure of the mayor also evacuated the schools of all levels. Same measure in some neighboring municipalities.
Seismic Swarm
“In the area where we recorded the shock we had other events in the past and is classified as Zone 2, or with a dangerous media as the province of Florence – explains Gilberto Saccorotti, director of the Pisan National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (InvG) – The shock of the morning was higher than that of last night, and it is a seismic behavior where you do not have the classic behavior trend strong shock and subsequent weaker, but you can have a magnitude comparable to that repeat over time. ” Incoming other similar shock? “Can not predict it.”
December 19, 2014 | 10:07
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