Earthquake Hits Macerata Area of Italy
UPDATE: 30 October, 2016 – Another strong earthquake, magnitude of on 6.5 Mw scale, hit the same area today. Aftershocks, some over 4.o (ML – Richter scale) in magnitude, are continuing. Italy’s media is reporting that buildings have collapsed in the area. The church of St. Benedict in Norcia is no more. Rescuers are at […]
4.9 Magnitude Earthquake in Le Marche Region of Italy
Last night, or rather, in the early hours of Sunday morning, two earthquakes shook the Ancona and Macerata areas of Italy’s Le Marche region. Despite scaring many in the area out of their wits, the two tremors do not appear to have caused injuries or damage to buildings. Checks are being carried out to confirm […]
Earthquake in Fivizzano area of Tuscany, Italy
Today, a little after 12:30pm Italian time, a 5.2 magnitude earthquake struck the Fivizzano – Massa area of north Tuscany in Italy. UPDATE: 17:18 – Tremors in the area are continuing. After the 5.2 earthquake, two more of 4.0 were registered along with a swarm of other tremors which are continuing as I write. Civil […]
Earthquake near Lucca in Tuscany
For information on the earthquake in Italy on 26 October, 2016, please see this article: Earthquake Hits Macerata Area of Italy ——————————- A few minutes ago via twitter I was told by one of my followers in Pistoia that Florence and Pisa had been rattled by an earthquake. A quick search revealed that a magnitude 4.8 […]
Sentencing Earthquake Scientists: An Unjust and Unjustified Court Decision in Italy
A court in L’Aquila, a town in Italy’s Abruzzo region badly hit by an earthquake in April 2009, found Italy’s Serious Risks Commission guilty of providing “inaccurate, incomplete and contradictory” information on the risk of a major earthquake occurring. In other words, the commission did not cry wolf. The commission, made up of some of Italy’s most respected […]
What’s Behind the Modena Area Earthquakes?
The area around Modena and Mantua in Italy has been hit my many hundreds of earth tremors and several sizable earthquakes in recent weeks. Although Italy is a seismically active country, the Modena area earthquakes have taken many by surprise because the zone was not considered to be a high risk area. Well, that has […]
An Earthquake Alarm
The recent reports of earthquakes in Italy have been perturbing, to say the least. So, I wondered, does any kind of simple earthquake alarm exist? A quick hop over to Amazon.com revealed that such things do exist and, apparently, work, or so says one user. “I live in San Diego. After the 7.2 magnitude quake […]
Earthquake in Milan Today
For information on the earthquake in Italy on October 26th and 30th, 2016, please see this article: Earthquake Hits Macerata Area of Italy ——————————- For information on the Tuscany earthquake of January 25th, 2013, please see this article: Earthquake near Lucca in Tuscany For information on the May 29, 2012 earthquake in Italy please see this: Yet […]
The Abruzzo Earthquake – An Expat’s Story
Earthquakes are frightening events, which the owners of the Casa del Amorino apartment down in Introdacqua, near Sulmona, know something about. Indeed, they found themselves right in the middle of the earthquake which shook a substantial section of the Abruzzo region in Italy on the 6 April, 2009, leaving the regional capital l’Aqulia badly damaged and many thousands homeless.