Severe earthquake shakes Italy: the moderator has to leave the swaying studio in the live show
Created: 2022-11-10 05:01
By: Martina Lippl
A severe earthquake shook Italy on Wednesday morning.
The earth trembled on the Adriatic Sea near Rimini.
It was also felt in Austria.
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: people run into the streets on the Adriatic coast in panic.
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Update from November 9, 4:48 p.m .:
The earthquake in Italy with a magnitude of 5.7 shook Marche and central Italy on Wednesday morning.
In this region, it is the strongest earthquake in almost 100 years, according to the Italian Institute for Earthquakes and Volcanology (INGV).
Up to 70 aftershocks were recorded.
Strongest earthquake in almost 100 years
The earthquake is "due to the front of the Apennine chain buried under the Adriatic Sea, which is shortening by 2 to 4 millimeters every year," explained INGV President Carlo Doglioni, according to the ANSA news agency.
After strong earthquakes in Italy – rail traffic resumed
Update from November 9, 3 p.m
.: Rail traffic on the Adria, Ancona-Rome, Rimini-Ravenna routes has resumed.
After the earthquake, train traffic was stopped at 7.15 a.m. to be on the safe side.
Update from November 9, 2:05 p.m
.: At the moment there is no news about damage and injuries after the earthquake.
In Ancona, however, people with atrial fibrillation, shock and panic crises were admitted to the emergency room of the regional hospital, the Italian news agency ANSA reports.
Many experienced a moment of fear.
"I was on the fourth floor of a hotel in Rimini, I was in the corridor and I felt like I was falling on the floor," Filippo told the news portal
bresciaoggi.it
.
According to the Italian earthquake service INGV, it was the strongest earthquake in this region since 1985. So far, an earthquake with a magnitude of up to 3.5 has been recorded in the region in June 2000.
Update from November 9, 1:31 p.m
.: After the severe earthquake at 7:07 a.m. and 7:12 a.m., more than 50 other seismic tremors with a magnitude of over 2 were registered in Italy.
A magnitude 2.3 tremor struck at 1:33 p.m.
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Earthquake off the coast: This is how the seismic wave spread
Update from November 9, 1:08 p.m
.: The earthquake in Italy was felt as far as Rome.
The epicenter was in the Adriatic Sea.
With a "shake movie" the Italian earthquake service INGV shows how the seismic waves have spread.
"Each second of animation represents one second in real time," reads the INGV website.
Blue waves indicate downward movement of the ground, while red waves indicate upward movement.
Earthquake live on Italian television: the moderator has to leave the swaying studio in the live show
Update from November 9, 11:18 a.m
.: Shortly after 7 a.m. on Wednesday morning, the earth shook in Italy.
The 5.7 magnitude earthquake in the Adriatic Sea shook the Marche region of central Italy.
The television station TV Fano recorded the earthquake on video.
The presenter and his team have to leave the studio during the live broadcast.
Everything starts to tremble during the broadcast, the scenery in the studio sways, and then the journalist Massimo Foghetti is no longer in his place, as can be seen in a recording on YouTube.
Particularly impressive: After the first severe tremor, the moderator returns to his desk, visibly shocked but composed.
After a short break, however, another earthquake sets in.
The city of Fano is about 31 kilometers from the epicenter.
Severe earthquake shakes Italy: people run into the streets on the Adriatic coast in panic
First report from November 9, 2022
ROME – In Italy, people were startled early in the morning at 7 a.m. on Wednesday.
An earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale shook the Adriatic region of central Italy.
The epicenter was off the coast of the Adriatic Sea near Pesaro and Fano, between Italy and Croatia at a depth of 30 kilometers, according to the Italian Institute for Earthquakes and Volcanology (INGV).
A magnitude 4 earthquake followed at 7:12 a.m.
Severe earthquake in Italy: people run into the streets in panic
According to Italian media reports, the coastal town of Senigallia was particularly affected.
Some damage has been reported in the area, the Austrian Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG) reports.
The Italian fire brigade Vigili del Fuoco, on the other hand, writes on Twitter that so far no damage reports have been received by the command center.
However, there were some inquiries about building controls that would now be processed.
The quake was clearly felt in Marche, Emilia Romagna, Veneto, Friuli, Umbria, Tuscany and the Balkans, tweets
Il Mondo dei Terremoti
.
In Rimini, people ran into the streets in panic, local Italian media reports.
Many hotels are said to have been evacuated.
So far, however, there have been no reports of injuries, according to the Italian news agency ANSA.
Trains have been stopped on the Adriatic.
Because of the strong earthquake, the railway lines around Ancona were closed for safety reasons.
Checks are now to be carried out there to determine whether there is damage to the tracks, bridges or tunnels.
The schools were also closed as a precaution in Fano, Pesaro, Senigallia and Ancona.
"The public lighting street lamps were swaying like twigs, everything was shaking badly, a terrible sensation and people were pouring into the streets," says a resident of Fano, ANSA reports.
Italy: Earthquake of magnitude 5.7 also felt in Austria
According to ZAMG, the earthquake was also perceived weakly to clearly in Austria in the federal states of Carinthia, Styria, Tyrol, Salzburg and Vienna.
In many cases, swaying was observed, particularly on higher floors.
Damage to buildings is not to be expected in Austria.
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake shook central Italy on Wednesday morning, according to the Italian Institute for Earthquakes and Volcanology (INGV).
© Screenshot INGV.it
Italy: Aftershocks continue to shake the earth
After the strong earthquakes on Wednesday morning, the earth in Italy has not yet come to rest.
The Italian earthquake institute INGV then recorded further weaker earthquakes.
The Eurasian and African tectonic plates meet in Italy, making the earthquake risk particularly high.
In the summer of 2016, almost 300 people died in an earthquake in the Marche, Umbria and Lazio regions.
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