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Palena is a comune and town in the province of Chieti in the Abruzzo region of Italy. [3] It is the hometown of Pietro Como and Lucia Travaglini, the parents of Italian-American baritone Perry Como (1912–2001). There is a plaque commemorating Perry Como as well as the home of painter Oreste Recchione, who also lived in Palena.
The seismic hazard map of Italy showing the probability of seismic activity for different places in Italy. Map of earthquakes in Italy 1900-2017 Earthquakes M5.5+ (1900–2016) Mediterranean. This is a list of earthquakes in Italy that had epicentres in Italy, or significantly affected the country. On average every four years an earthquake with ...
Sky TG24 captured the moment a 10-year-old girl was found under the rubble of a collapsed building more than 17 hours after the earthquake hit.
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An earthquake occurred in the region of Abruzzo, in central Italy, at 03:32 CEST (01:32 UTC) on 6 April 2009.It was rated 5.8 or 5.9 on the Richter scale and 6.3 on the moment magnitude scale; [9] its epicentre was near L'Aquila, the capital of Abruzzo, which together with surrounding villages suffered the most damage.
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In total, the earthquakes killed 2,400 people. [10] The historic city of Sulmona suffered heavy damage, and more than 1,000 people died. [11] This has been inferred by the presence of many buildings, all built in the 18th and 19th centuries. The earthquake effectively destroyed much of the city's architectural heritage.
A women’s prison near Naples was evacuated as a precaution Tuesday following a 4.4 magnitude quake with an epicenter at an active volcano west of the southern Italian port city that forced ...