Officials said Thursday that a 4.4 magnitude earthquake affected the volcano area around Naples overnight, causing several injuries, damaging the buildings and sending frightened residents to the streets.
The earthquake, after which there were several small earthquakes, was the largest targeting of the Camp Flagier (Fligure Fields) area in southern Italy for 10 months. According to the National Institute of Geo -Physics and volcano, it has occurred at a depth of 2.5 km around 1:25 pm (Ingv), And residents raised their beds.
“We can’t walk like this, we can’t sleep. We are scared Local team News service in the middle of the night in Baganoli district on the coast of the western Naples.
Photos broadcast by Italian media shows that the car windows were broken due to damage to a masonry and a church in Baganoli, where schools were closed on Thursday.
According to Naples’ Mayor Gatano Munfi, a woman suffered when her roof collapsed, while her roof collapsed, while two or three other people went to the hospital with deductions due to broken glass sheards. He told reporters that a total of 11 people went to the emergency rooms of local hospitals but there were several “panic incidents”.
Prime Minister Georgia Meloni said she was constantly monitoring the situation and was in touch with the concerned officials.
Earthquake activity is nothing new in the area, which is an active calcira – hollow after the hollow – which is Europe’s largest. It extends from the outskirts of Naples to the sea, which is about 12 to 15 km.
But many of the 500,000 residents living in the danger zone have already suffered a 4.4 magnitude earthquake in May 2024, the largest for 40 years. At that time, there were no injuries or no major structural damage.
‘Especially severe’
Naples’ Mayor Menfidi told RTL Radio Thursday’s earthquake was a “especially severe earthquake”, which was like last year but “with a center near the city of Naples, so it felt more in the city”.
He said a group of people tried to enter the former NATO base in Baganoli, probably. For protection.
He said, “There was a moment of panic … but then everything was calm,” he said, “He added,” Obviously these are the moments in which people are scared. ” The situation is “under control,” said Munfidi.
40,000 years ago Campi Flagie’s burst was the most powerful in the Mediterranean.
In the early 1980s, the restoration of earthquake activities resulted in a massive evacuation, which reduced the nearby city of Pozoli to a past. Experts, however, say that a complete breakthrough is unlikely in the near future.
