Italy’s quake hit a remote area straddling Umbria, Marche and Lazio, to the north of a region devastated by a quake in 2009, rousing residents and holiday-makers in terrifying fashion.
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Italy’s forestry police say they have extracted dozens of people alive from hard-hit Pescara del Tronto in Italy’s Le Marche region, but rescue crews still haven’t reached the nearby hamlet of Peracchia di Acqua Santa Terme.
Then a deadly 6.2 magnitude natural disaster struck the region early Wednesday morning, and the streets of Amatrice, Pescara del Tronto and Accumoli are now scenes of devastation.
Speaking to MailOnline she said: “We were in a villa in the mountains and we woke up to really vigorous shaking, ‘ she told MailOnline”.
Cheers broke out when she was pulled out but there were wails when bodies emerged.
“We will leave nobody on their own”, Renzi pledged earlier in the day as he thanked people – including many who had searched for survivors with their bare hands – for aiding the rescue effort.
A devastating quake hit central Italy on Wednesday, killing at least 120 people and displacing more than 1,000.
Numerous dead were in Amatrice, a town just north-east of Rome.
Amatrice is known for its traditional all’amatriciana pasta sauce, and was gearing up to hold a festival celebrating the recipe this weekend.
At least 60 victims lives were claimed there, civil protection chief Fabrizio Curcio told reporters while visiting Amatrice.
“Four people are under the rubble, but they are not showing any sign of life”.
Gilroy, his girlfriend and other hotel guests waited outside in a clear area. About 200 aftershocks followed over the next several hours, including a 5.5 magnitude tremor at 4:33 A.M.
“I don’t know what we’ll do”, she said.
” ‘It was one of the most attractive towns of Italy and now there’s nothing left, ‘ she said, too distraught to give her name”. My parents and I were abruptly awoken when we heard a loud noise and felt the house shake violently. A steady column of dump trucks brought tons of twisted metal, rock and cement down the hill and onto the highway toward Rome, along with a handful of ambulances bringing the injured to Rome hospitals.
“We need chainsaws, shears to cut iron bars, and jacks to remove beams: everything, we need everything”, civil protection worker Andrea Gentili said.
Meanwhile, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) reported yet another 4.6-magnitude quake hit central Italy, some 66 km northeast from the town of Terni, with a population of over 220,000 people.
The epicentre was at Norcia and the quake hit at a relatively shallow depth of six miles. “There will probably be more damaging earthquakes in sequence, potentially even larger than the first”.
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According to news reports, a magnitude-6.2 quake and a series of aftershocks struck Umbria, Lazio and Le Marche, three regions some 80 to 100 miles north-east of Rome. In May 2012, a pair of earthquakes killed dozens of people in northern Italy, while in April 2009, a 6.3-magnitude quake hit in the Aquila region of central Italy, killing 295.
