Four days after the earthquake in central Italy, the region was again shaken by a strong earth strike on Sunday morning.
Experts indicate the strength with a value of 6.5 on the Richter scale.
The epicenter was six kilometers north of the small town of Norcia southeast of Perugia.
There are apparently several buildings collapsed in the region. The victims are not known.
A heavy earthquake has shaken Central Italy again. The Helmholtz Center in Potsdam gave the strength at the Sunday morning with 6.5 on the Richter scale. The quake was thus significantly stronger than the two earth impacts of the strengths of 6.1 and 5.5, which had taken place in the region on Wednesday.
The seismic center of the Euro-Mediterranean Sea located the epicenter north of the small town of Norcia, 130 kilometers north-east of Rome and about 70 kilometers southeast of Perugia. Whether there were injured is still unclear. In Rome the two central metrolines A and B were temporarily stopped. There are technical reviews. The quake occurred around 7:40 am, according to the experts at about ten kilometers deep.
In the affected areas, people ran into the streets, as the news agency Ansa reported. The quake had also been felt for a long time in the province of Umbria and in cities such as Florence and Ancona. In Norcia rushed the historic Basilica di St. Benedetto.
After the earthquake, serious civilian casualties have been reported to Italian civil protection. No reports of death victims had yet been announced, but there were several injuries. This said civil protection chief Fabrizio Curcio at a press conference. Many streets are blocked. In Tolentino in the Marche region, according to Corriere della Serra, three people were already living from the ruins of a collapsed building. The quake has been one of the strongest of the past 100 years in Italy, the newspaper continues.
The mayor of the small community of Ussita, Marco Rinaldi, told the news agency Ansa: "It is all tumbled." In the place had already caused the tremors of last Wednesday severe damage. "I see a smoke column, it's a disaster, a disaster, I've slept in the car and saw hell."
Several severe earthquakes within a few days
It was only on Wednesday that Umbria, Lazio and Marche had shaken the earth. Numerous houses were collapsed. Already on Saturday morning, the news agency Ansa had cited many minor aftershocks, citing the Italian Institute of Geophysics and Vulcanology. Approximately 4,000 people would have had to spend the third night in a row in emergency accommodations - for example, in sports halls, hotels, or sleeping coaches of a train.
Already two months ago, Italy had been shaken by a severe earthquake disaster. In an earthquake on 24 August, which had taken place around Amatrice, nearly 300 people had been killed.
