According to a New York Times story, earthquakes, including one estimated at 6.2 magnitude, have struck the towns of Amatrice and Accumoli in Italy's Rieti province and Pescara del Tronto in Ascoli Piceno province. In the latter town, two people were killed. The mayor of Accumoli Amatrice declared that "half the town no longer exists." The towns lie about 100 miles (160 km) from Rome.
takyon: BBC. USGS: M6.2 and M5.5.
Update: Death toll revised up to 120.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 24 2016, @07:20AM
Never a good combination.
After the Whittier Narrows quake (a low-6 magnitude event in the mid 1980s) there were some photos of cars that were parked beside an old brick wall.
Well, it used to be a wall.
Now it was a pile of rubble on top of some smashed-up cars.
If you want to look on the bright side, these folks now have some of the tear-down done, so they can build there again--this time using the knowledge engineers and architects have acquired through the years.
I'm wondering what the count of non-lethal-but-serious injuries will be.
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