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Can these people take any more of this
http://news.sky.com/story/strong-earthquake-felt-in-rome-and-central-italy-region-10733082
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Three strong earthquakes have been felt in central Italy, with people in Rome saying they experienced the tremors, local media say.
The first quake measured a magnitude of 5.4 and was 60 miles north of Rome, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre said.
Two more of similar magnitude struck 50 minutes later around the same region and was felt in Rome, local media has reported.
The Metro in Rome has been evacuated, following the second quake after people reported feeling tremors there.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,320 posts)...
Rescue crews, who had reached the hotel around 4:30am Wednesday morning following a 10 kilometer (6 mile) cross-country ski trek, said there were no signs of life in the hotel, local media reported. The force of the avalanche moved the hotel 10 some meters (33 feet).
One survivor was hospitalized after rescue crews pulled him from his car which had been parked outside the hotel. 38-year-old Giampaolo Parete had gone to his vehicle to retrieve something when the avalanche struck.
"I am alive because I went to get something from my car," he told medics, according to local media. Paolo believed his wife and children had been buried by the snow.
Local media also reported the rescue of a second survivor, though it remains unclear whether the individual had been inside or outside the building at the moment of impact.
http://www.dw.com/en/officials-fear-many-deaths-in-avalanche-hit-hotel-in-italy/a-37186135
malaise
(269,021 posts)How awful
NutmegYankee
(16,199 posts)Maybe their courts should investigate what's going on because I'm sure the scientists are afraid of being jailed for manslaughter.
malaise
(269,021 posts)expect earthquakes. Like volcanoes they may not occur for ages but they come back.
It's like building in a 'former river bed'. One day that river will return for it's space.