Multiple earthquakes strike central Italy
OCT 27, 2016
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.0210171
BBC : On 26 October two earthquakes, one magnitude 5.5 and the other magnitude 6.1, struck two hours apart near the town of Visso, Italy. In August a magnitude 6.2 earthquake killed nearly 300 people in Amatrice, just 70 km away. Damage and injury reports from yesterday’s quakes suggest that the damage was not as severe. The first quake occurred at a relatively shallow depth of 9 km, with an epicenter 7 km southwest of Visso. The second quake struck 2 km north of the town at a depth of 10 km. Mario Tozzi of Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics says it’s likely the two earthquakes were aftershocks of the August quake.
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