Earthquake in Calabria, evacuated schools and offices

An earthquake of magnitude 4.3 was recorded at 10.19 in the province of Vibo Valentia. According to the estimate of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, the earthquake occurred in the south-western Costa Calabra area (Catanzaro, Vibo Valentia, Reggio di Calabria) and was recorded at a depth of 10 km. Among the areas closest to the epicenter Briatico and Pizzo Calabro, immediately after Zambrone, Sant’Onofrio and Vibo Valentia. But the shock was also felt in some areas of the provinces of Catanzaro, Cosenza and Reggio Calabria. Lessons suspended and schools evacuated in many areas of the region: the earthquake, which had the province of Vibo Valentia as its epicenter, was felt in a large part of Calabria. There were no injuries or damage to property. In Lamezia Terme, the Rinascita-Scott process, in progress in the bunker room, was also temporarily interrupted. The quake caused fear among the people, who in many areas, not only where the epicenter of the earthquake was recorded, rushed to the street from their offices. “Following the seismic event recorded this morning at 10.19, at sea. , off the Calabrian coast, from the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology at a depth of 10 km with a magnitude of ML 4.3, the Italy Situation Room of the Civil Protection Department got in touch with the local structures of the National Civil Protection Service. From the checks carried out, the event was felt by the population, but no damage to people or property has been reported at the moment “. This was communicated by the Civil Protection.