Entire cities destroyed, erased in a few moments and turned into piles of rubble. At least 160 people died, hundreds of lost almost four wounded ( read testimonials ), and 2,500 displaced people: numbers that unfortunately are going to increase continuously. And hotels that crumble while all 70 guests sleep in the rooms with views mountain Sibillini . And even children asking for help because they were trapped under the rubble, but that are achieved when they are lifeless. It is true to its tragedy that aired in Italy Center at 3:36 the night of August 24, when a 6.0-magnitude earthquake leveled the towns of amateur and Accumoli, in the province of Rieti , Arquata , in the province of Ascoli Piceno , and its fraction Pescara del Tronto (photo) .
“It ‘a drama, a slaughterhouse,” he says Sergio Pirozzi , Mayor of amateur , one of the most beautiful towns in Italy (photos) . No longer exists. Destroyed are also other small towns affected by the earthquake, that just in the summer come to life with the arrival of visitors and families on vacation: the people in the area at the time of the earthquake, in short, are higher than the official number of residents. The epicenter of the quake – warned in Abruzzo , Umbria , New York and Emilia Romagna – was at 4 km depth close to Accumoli (photo) , where the situation is “dramatic,” says the mayor Stefano Petrucci . The aftershocks continue: more than 160 in the last nine hours, the strongest with a magnitude of 4.7 in the afternoon. More than 500 fire fighters mobilized for relief efforts, as well as canine teams, Police , military, divers , civil protection and voluntary . The premier Matteo Renzi announced that the Council of Ministers shall be convened Thursday, August 25, 2016 to 18 at Palazzo Chigi will decree a state of emergency for the regions New York , and Marches Umbria affected by the earthquake of this night. Unlocking so automatically the use of the 234 million euro of the emergency fund.
The Minister Graziano Delrio speak of “very grave situation” and for the next forecasts are even more alarming. “The road of amateur is full of rubble – said Paolo Crescenzi , responsible for the civil protection of the Valle del Velino , the first to be intervened -. First you need to clean the roads and then you can pay for help . The critical phase is yet to come and it will be when we can enter the houses imploded on themselves. then it will be that we will find the dead . This second phase could begin as early as this evening because the fast work is progressing but will above all tomorrow and the day after. ” The area is classified as highly dangerous and seismologist Enzo Boschi , former President of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, there is the risk of a second strong quake.
a second quake of magnitude 5.4 was recorded at 4:33 with an epicenter between Norcia (Perugia) and Castelsantangelo on Black (Macerata) and hypocenter 8,7 kilometers deep. In 1979 another strong quake of magnitude 5.9 had hit Norcia . The most violent occurred in the area, with a magnitude estimated 7, hit Norcia and Cascia in January 1703.
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Hours 23:40 – The number of victims is still growing – And ‘climbed to an altitude of 160 the number of victims of the earthquake as reported by the civil Defence. “There are 106 dead on the Lazio and 53 on the Marche, then the official toll rises to 159 victims. We know there are discoveries in progress and so the number will grow but out of respect of the ongoing operations, including identification of remains, I stick to these numbers, “he announced the head of the Curcio civil protection.
22:39 pm – growing number of victims – Salt to 46 the number of earthquake victims in Arquata del Tronto . Five currently missing. This was announced by the brigade of Ascoli Piceno fire. The dead in total would then be 132.
22:14 pm – At least 37 victims of the Tronto Pescara – And ‘climbed to 37 deaths the death toll caused by the earthquake that devastated Pescara del Tronto. This was reported by the mayor, Aleandro Petrucci, stating that three victims are counted in the Arquata fraction, one in another nearby village and 33 in the country. Meanwhile, rescuers continued to dig through the rubble in the pitch dark – the country is without electricity – aided by lights set up by the army.
Hours 21:50 – “Victims go up to 124″ – “Unfortunately there are 4 deaths in the Marche area, so we have 124 victims. Obviously the relief will continue to work as long as there will be no one to find. We have to be confident, we are at work “.The says the head of civil protection in connection Fabrizio Curcio Door to door.
21:12 pm – Girls 10 years old pulled alive, sister survives – And ‘the little girl of about 10 years trapped under the rubble was pulled alive for about 15 hours, while the little sister is not going to make it. It is learned by law enforcement
Hours 21.05 – Little girl five years pulled alive from the rubble – A five year old girl was pulled alive from the rubble in Pescara del Tronto by the Fire Department, to work for hours in the areas affected by the earthquake that hit central Italy on the night. The confirmation comes from the operations room of the Civil Protection of the Marche. “The child was sniffed by a police dog. The girl is in good condition “, says the mayor of Ascoli Piceno Guido Castelli.
20:23 pm – Found dead child crying under rubble – You was found dead in the rubble of the 11 year old boy who was trying to save you from hours to amateur and that he had initially given signs of life
20:20 pm – New shock measuring 4.4 – a new earthquake of magnitude 4.4 has just been recorded in the area between amateur and Accumoli.
hours 19.58 – INGV: “seismic activity still strong” – the seismic situation in the area of the earthquake of this night “activity continues to be strong with many replicas that follow one another in the area”, the “full swing.” He indicated the head of the Institute of Geophysics earthquake structure and Volcanology, Daniela Pantosti, explain that at the time there were about 250 shock.
Hours 19:54 – New shock in Pescara del Tronto – a new violent tremor shook the area of Pescara del Tronto, by moving the steel structures and tents in the nearby relief camp set up by the civil protection.
19.30 – “In Rome hotel 70 people” – In the historic Hotel Rome amateur night at the time of the earthquake, there were about 70 people . He said the mayor of the municipality Sergio Pirozzi. Until now have been recovered only two corpses.
Hours 19. 27 – Tomorrow CDM unlocks 234 million – The Presidency of the Council stated that the Council of Ministers shall be convened Thursday August 25, 2016 to 18 at palazzo Chigi. Follow the official agenda but, as anticipated by Public Policy, the CDM in the first place will decree a state of emergency for the regions of Lazio, Marche and Umbria affected by the earthquake of this night. Unlocking so automatically the use of the 234 million euro of the emergency fund.
Hours 19:23 – Renzi: “The wounded are 368″ – “The wounded and sick who have been taken away from amateur and Accumoli with helicopters and air ambulance are 368 this morning. There is a problem with the recognition of remains, but we’re working on. ” This was stated by Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s press conference in Rieti adding that “the emergency will have a long period of management, we will all be up to the challenge.”
Ore 19:15 – Renzi: “at least 120 victims, no final budget”
19:10 pm – agent: “86 victims to amateur and Accumoli” – The chief prosecutor of Rieti Giuseppe Saieva He has confirmed that the moment “confirmed dead to 18 hours to amateur and Accumoli are 86″.
Hours 19:04 – Amateur Mayor: “At least 64 dead” – “For amateur already confirmed deaths are 64, but are intended to increase. The country no longer exists. ” He says the mayor Sergio Pirozzi town, according to which there would be still many missing. “Rescuers are doing the maximum, still pulling people alive from the rubble – added Pirozzi -, but the toll of deaths definitely get worse.” The mayor is now in the southern part of Amatrice, where he works tirelessly among the destroyed houses.
19.00 – INGV: “In the coming days other shocks” – ” in the coming days we still expect a large number of shock “. He said Massimo Cocco, INGV executive explaining that it is a “seismic sequence that will have its own evolution and we can not exclude that we shook that create further damage to already damaged buildings as has already occurred with the magnitude tremor 4.7 “. “But we can not give information on the number of shocks, of what duration, nor predict what magnitude will be” concluded Cocco.
Hours 18:47 – Mayor: “One hundred missing” – “I have lost a hundred. But, you understand that to be dispersed at this time … “. He said the mayor of Amatrice, Sergio Pirozzi referring to the inhabitants of amateur and neighboring villages not yet found. “The people here are two hundred in the winter, but at this time between amateur and the nearby villages are coming to 40 thousand. Many had come to the feast of spaghetti amatriciana Saturday and Sunday will be a sad fiftieth edition, “he added.
Hours 18:33 – Mayor:” Renzi told me that here the ‘ Italy will play face “- ” the premier Renzi said there shortly resend and here they play Italy’s face. I have no reason to disbelieve him. Even the governor Zingaretti showed immediately very carefully. ” So the mayor of Amatrice, Sergio Pirozzi, after meeting with Matteo Renzi in the sports center which will feature a field kitchen.
Hours 18:24 – 1,500 displaced people in the Marche – are 1,500 people left homeless, destroyed or unusable because, in the areas of the Marche region devastated by the earthquake. This was announced by the regional civil protection. Most of the homeless are concentrated in the municipality of Arquata del Tronto and the fraction of Pescara del Tronto, razed to the ground. Will be hosted in tent camps nearly all who are setting up for the night.
18:06 pm – In military incoming anti profiteering – Alarm jackals in areas affected by terremotp: the Provincial Command of the Carabinieri Ascoli has announced that they are coming a hundred soldiers of that tonight will patrol in particular the territory of Arquata del Tronto and Pescara, but even the most isolated villages; Several citizens have reported in the last hours suspicious presences in the vicinity of the houses abandoned by fleeing residents after the earthquake tremors that follow each other since last night.
17:56 pm – Man pulled alive after 12 hours – has been pulled alive from the rubble while ago a 57 year old man. The man has fractures of the lower limbs, but is in good condition and has been pulled out from a house near the church tower of the main church of Amatrice. The fifty-seven was 12 hours under the rubble.
Hours 17.53 – “In Marche 24 dead” – Salt to 24 the number of earthquake victims in Pescara and to Arquata del Tronto , in the province of Ascoli Piceno. The data, provisional, was confirmed by the regional Civil Protection. With Arquata del Tronto and Montegallo, the fraction is the most affected by the earthquake. A valley of Pescara del Tronto will set up a complete module with 200 beds places, coming from Emilia Romagna. Are being prepared also the tents, and in the mountain town are hijacked data 250 firefighters from various regions.
Hours 17:35 – Renzi came to amateur – The President of the Council Matteo Renzi he arrived in Amatrice, one of the towns most devastated by the earthquake of this night. The Prime Minister was welcomed, among others, by the Minister of Infrastructure Graziano Delrio and the head of Civil Protection Fabrizio Curcio.
17.30 – No noise from children under the rubble – In an almost absolute silence continuing investigations of the child of 11 years remained under the rubble of her home to amateur and who previously asked for help and perhaps even sent a text message with your mobile phone to his father. On the latter case there is no confirmation. For some, there were no more signals from the baby and firefighters are using highly sensitive instruments that sense the warmth.
hours 16:24 – The integral number of Civil Protection for donations
is active from 15:00, thanks to the existing Memorandum of Understanding between the Department of Civil and fixed and mobile operators protection, the solidarity number 45500 to support the victims of the earthquake affected tonight central Italy. E ‘can donate two euro by sending an sms or by using the integral from a landline call to 45500. The collected funds will be transferred by the operators, without any mark, the Civil Protection Department that will be devoted to the regions affected by the earthquake.
hours 16.04 – “There is a child under the rubble, they heard calling for help and are trying to get him out”
I said to one amateur caver who is participating the relief effort after the earthquake. In the same downtown area where the building collapsed with the child under the rubble – which you do not know the age – this morning were four corpses extracts and two girls are still alive.
hours 15:55 – civil Protection: “73 dead”
15.30 – Mayor of Arquata: “17 dead and 55 wounded, including 20 serious “
hours 14.49 – Ascoli Hospital: 81 injured, 7 serious
hours 14:27 – Delrio: “very serious situation”
“There is more to go for help because the number of victims continues to grow by the hour,” the minister said Graziano Delrio after meeting local officials and rescuers to Arquato del Tronto. “The situation is very serious – he continued – because we have destroyed whole countries.” The minister then said to be in “constant contact with the Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.”
hours 14:22 – INGV, “more than 160 shocks in the last nine hours,”
hours 14:14 – Avis invites to donate blood
hours 14:03 – Cracks in the Cathedral of Urbino
the strong earthquake this morning opened small cracks in the outer structure of the building blocks of the Duomo of Urbino, which was completely cordoned off. Not however indicate damage to the Ducal Palace. The cathedral had been subjected to a restoration after the earthquake of 1997, which had also brought down part of the facade statues.
hours 13:55 – New concussion in Arquata del Tronto : magnitude 4.7
E ‘it was felt to a handful of kilometers from the epicenter of the earthquake zone last night. The terrain of the playground where the first aid field was set up literally jumped for a second triggering panic among evacuees flocked to the collection center.
12.58 hours – The first two tent cities ” 250 seats each “to Accumulate and amateur
hours 12.37 – detected failure of amateur
hours 12.36 – Amatrice three nuns, missing a
12.25 am – Renzi: “In the afternoon we will visit the affected areas”
hours 12:17 – Juncker Renzi: “Ready to provide assistance in any way “
hours 12.04 – Victims also in Sommati, fraction of amateur
hours 12:01 – Malagò ( cones): “a minute of silence for the victims”
The number one Italian sport called “the national sports federations, the sports Associated Disciplines and sports Promotion Entities to enforce a minute silence at all sporting events will be held in Italy from today and throughout the weekend. “
hours 11.34 – civil Protection: “38 confirmed dead”
Ten confirmed dead in Arquata area and 28 in the one between accumulations and amateur. And ‘this at the time the budget of the earthquake that struck in the night Lazio and Marche. It was reported Immacolata Postiglione, head of the emergency civil protection, in a press conference.
hours 11:08 – Boldrini at 13 to Arquata del Tronto
hours 11:04 – alerted pharmacies to ensure medicines and health products
hours 11:02 – Mayor accumoli: “At least two thousand displaced. 9 dead, 3 or 4 missing “
hours 10:44 – Mattarella:” Moment of pain and responsibilities “
hours 10:54 – Girls 9 month pulled lifeless from the rubble in Arquata
hours 10.31 – Bishop of Ascoli Piceno helps volunteers in the rubble
Monsignor Giovanni D’Ercole immediately after the violent shock took to the streets to help out the volunteers in the most affected countries. “In the dark – Adnkronos tells the prelate – felt only people shouting, desperate people on the streets, cries coming from the houses. At first light I saw only rubble, a country completely destroyed. He ‘another eagle. “
hours 10:29 -” EU ready to help “
” EU ready to help “wrote in Italian on Twitter EU commissioner for humanitarian aid and crisis management Christos Stylianides.
10.26 hours – for Accumoli 4 dead and 8 missing
E ’4 confirmed dead and at least 8 missing the earthquake budget of the earthquake in Accumoli. The Stefano Petrucci told ANSA the mayor.
In particular, three deaths have occurred in the hamlet of Illica and one in Accumoli. Three increasingly dispersed to Illica, four (a family with two children) in Accumoli and one in the hamlet of Grisciano.
hours 10.01 – Gran Sasso: the collapse of the east wall of the little horn, but no damage
hours 9:52 – Amatrice fractions still unreachable
“the situation is dramatic, amateur has less than 69 hamlets. These are isolated and unreachable apesi “. Warns Alex Achilles Core Volunteer Emergency Civil Protection. A LaPresse says: “Amateur was razed to the ground. The Mayor Sergio Pirozzi calls for the intervention of helicopters to rescue people “
hours 9:53 – For amateur weekend was scheduled for the 50th festival of spaghetti Amatriciana
Just this weekend was scheduled at the famous festival of amateur spaghetti Amatriciana, known and appreciated throughout the world. Even for this were still many Roman and holidaymakers in the town of Lazio. The event, scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, this year also had a double importance: in fact celebrating the 50th edition of the pasta party tomato, cheese and bacon.
hours 9:13 – 10 dead in Pescara del Tronto
are 10 victims of the earthquake in Pescara del Tronto (Ascoli Piceno): eight in the district and two in scattered houses in the district. He learned from the ANSA Regional Civil Protection. Twenty wounded, coded ‘yellow and’ red, transported to the hospital in Ascoli Piceno entire earthquake zone
9.7 hours – Delrio arriving in the affected areas
9.6 hours – “Eight dead in Pescara del Tronto”
eight victims would be extracted from the rubble of Pescara del Tronto, the hamlet of Arquata ( Ascoli) almost destroyed by the earthquake. Among them possibly children. The news, not yet officially confirmed, comes from an informed source. Among the victims also have one or more children. Two seriously injured and transported to hospital in ‘code red, two people pulled alive.
hours 9.01 – “39 shocks in just over three hours”
were 39 in just over three hours the major earthquakes, with a magnitude equal to or greater than 3, which took place between Lazio, Umbria and Marche starting at 3:36, when an earthquake of magnitude 6 struck Rieti. The reported data indicate the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV). The strongest aftershocks to Home so far have been recorded in the area of Norcia (Perugia): the first with a 5.4 magnitude occurred at 4:33, just preceded a minute earlier, at 4:32, a quake of magnitude 5.1.
hours 8:37 – 13 dead
The budget of the earthquake that struck last night the Italian center is currently 13 confirmed dead, 11 in Lazio including six to Accumulate and 5 in Amatrice, in the province of Rieti, and two in the Marche region in Peschiera del Tronto (Ascoli Piceno). But many people are reported under the rubble and the death toll is likely to rise.
hours 7.01 – “Sisma comparable in intensity to that Aquila”
said the head of the Civil Protection Department Fabrizio Curcio.
hours 6:56 – amateur Mayor: “There are dead”
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