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Title    Earthquakes Shake Italian Towns
Date    Wednesday August 24 2016, @06:08AM
Author    takyon
Topic   
from the shook dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/08/24/066243

butthurt writes:

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.

Original Submission

Links
  1. "butthurt" - https://soylentnews.org/~butthurt/
  2. "a New York Times story," - http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/24/world/europe/italy-earthquake-usgs.html
  3. "Amatrice" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amatrice
  4. "Accumoli" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accumoli
  5. "Rieti" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_Rieti
  6. "Ascoli Piceno" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascoli_Piceno
  7. "BBC" - http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37171953
  8. "M6.2" - http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us10006g7d
  9. "M5.5" - http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us10006g7w
  10. "Death toll revised up to 120" - http://www.thelocal.it/20160824/live-many-dead-in-central-italy-earthquake
  11. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=15480
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