A second earthquake within a few days has shaken Italy. After Campania, Tuscany was hit. There were no injuries or deaths caused by the quake.
Siena - As a result of a magnitude 5.8 earthquake that shook Greece at the end of March, fears of a series of severe earthquakes also grew in Italy. After the earthquake near Naples, another comparatively strong earthquake was recorded in Italy on Tuesday (April 16). This time the epicenter was around four kilometers away from the small Tuscan town of Poggibonsi in the province of Siena, which is popular with tourists, as the Italian broadcaster
Sky TG24
reported based on data from the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV).
According to the report from the Geophysics Institute, an earthquake measuring 3.4 on the Richter scale was recorded. It happened on Tuesday evening at around 7:49 p.m. (local time) at a depth of around eight kilometers. “The earthquake was very noticeable. There are no specific reports and no damage to people or property,” Poggibonsi Mayor David Bussagli wrote in a post on
.
The earthquake was also felt in the major cities of Florence and Siena - residents reacted in panic
“Reviews are underway,” wrote the president of the Tuscany region, Eugenio Giani, in a post on the short message service X (formerly Twitter). Although no major damage was reported in connection with the earthquake, there was “panic among the people”. According to the Italian Civil Defense, there were no injuries or fatalities.
Fear in Italy: As a result of the first earthquake, further tremors occurred in Tuscany
The epicenter is in an area of open countryside between Poggibonsi and Castellina in Chianti. The quake was clearly felt in the areas between Siena and Florence, both in the two capitals and especially in the surrounding smaller towns, reports the
Ansa
news service . According to the INGV, after the first quake occurred, other quakes of smaller magnitude with a similar epicenter were recorded: with a magnitude of 1.4 a few minutes after 7:56 p.m., with a magnitude of 0.8 at 8:01 p.m. and with a magnitude of 2.2 at 8:11 p.m.
Tremors and earthquakes occur again and again in Italy. Like
Il Meteo
in January 2023
reported
,
16,302 earthquakes were recorded by Italy's National Earthquake Network on Italian territory and in neighboring areas in 2022: On average, this results in a rate of around 44 tremors and earthquakes per day. However, it can be assumed that these are mostly tremors of comparatively lower magnitude than the recent earthquakes in Naples or Poggibonsi.
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