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 in Rome, Florence, Naples, and 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 strong, 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 magni tude of around 5.5.
But the fear is not over. A few minutes later, at around 11,25, a new tremor extended, always with the epicenter close to the same point, with the switchboards of the emergency response that they received thousands of phone calls. In the areas affected by the earthquake, in the municipalities of Amatrice and Accumoli already buried by the snow have been reported a few collapses. Amatrice came down the little that remained of the bell tower of the church of St. Augustine, and gave in a cornice of the Hotel School. But it is very difficult to make an estimate of the damage and any injuries because the road links with the nearest places to the epicenter are almost impossible. Immediately after the first strong shock, a helicopter took off from Pescara is now in flight in the area.
All the stations of the A24 motorway that links Rome, L’aquila and Teramo, have been closed to check for the presence of any damage caused by the earthquake. 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 of 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 Railroads 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.
In Fact, 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 diggers, but snow”.
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