Friday, August 26, 2016

Earthquake shook endless and new collapses. At least 250 victims – Il Sole 24 Ore

New collapses occurred in the center of amateur after the strong quake of magnitude 4.8 of 6.28. These crises have not involved the teams of firefighters who are working at this time in two different places of course Rome: Hotel Rome, from where a victim has been drawn in the evening, and a private home. While the earth continues to tremble and rescuers do not stop digging in the rubble, rises to 250 Death toll of victims of the earthquake in Central Italy.

For Amateur, where yesterday there was a new strong quake intensity of 4.3, the biggest toll with 193 deaths. Eleven dead in Accumoli, 46 Arquata in the Marche. The number of hospitalized wounded has risen to 365. They are about forty seriously injured transferred in helicopter rescue. The Fire Department have pulled 215 people alive. They were assisted more than 1,200 people in the fields and structures in Lazio, Marche and Umbria Civil Protection. A convict 45-year old native of Naples was arrested by police in Amatrice for profiteering: trying to break into an empty house by forcing the door with a screwdriver.



A shallow and most destructive earthquake

Among the rubble of the Hotel Roma are seen materially four corpses waiting to be recovered, and were found the documents of two young guests of ‘ hotel, presumably under the ruins. At least twenty guests were able to escape before the final collapse. The Governor of Lazio Zingaretti said that “do not serve collections of clothing or food,” and invited “to book your blood donation.”

In the night another hundred shock
in the night were about a hundred replicas of the earthquake in Rieti, whose intensity was reduced compared to that of the earthquakes occurred yesterday. Almost all the shocks recorded in the night were in fact a magnitude of between 2 and 3. Only two have been most intense: the strongest with a magnitude of 4.8, occurred at 6.28 in the amateur area, in the southern end of the fault, and the other, of magnitude 2.6, was recorded at 1.49
in the Ascoli Piceno area. This brings to over 800 the number of earthquakes occurred since the beginning of the sequence, ie starting from the quake of magnitude 6 of 3,36 on 24 August. “Actually, they were much more numerous, perhaps thousands, considering even those under 2,” observes magnitude seismologist Massimo Cocco, National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV).

At least three British casualties
There are at least three British citizens among the earthquake victims. This was reported by the BBC, but still has not reached an official confirmation of the Foreign Office. The British Foreign Minister, Boris Johnson, said the consulate staff were sent in to provide assistance to British citizens.



Government launches a state of emergency with 50 million and freeze taxes

The actions of the government
Meanwhile, the Cabinet yesterday approved the state of emergency and the allocation of the first 50 million euro. This was announced yesterday, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, adding that the Minister Padoan is preparing to sign the “dot block” in the areas affected by the earthquake. Abi invites banks to suspend mortgage payments of damaged houses. The Ania asked insurance companies to extend the payment of premiums, while Obama and Putin
have offered aid. Collections from Sunday’s state museums will go to earthquake victims territories.

It explores for “wrongful disatro”
The prosecutor’s office has opened a unique Rieti file “box” with the hypothesis of culpable disaster offense, to shed light also on the collapses that have affected recently renovated buildings, such as the school of amateur and bell tower collapsed in Accumoli. The chief prosecutor Giuseppe Saieva has made a first visit and set out a series of kidnappings.

the collapse, the pain, the testimony

affected almost three hundred cultural heritage
are 293 cultural heritage affected only in narrower area, including 50 severely damaged or collapsed. This was reported by the Minister Dario Franceschini culture, explaining that it is a number set to rise.

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