{"id":237325,"date":"2023-09-18T17:09:47","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T09:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=237325"},"modified":"2023-09-18T17:09:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T09:09:47","slug":"earthquake-hits-central-italy-but-no-immediate-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=237325","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake hits central Italy but no immediate damage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/assets\/news_photos\/2023\/09\/18\/image-147980-1695024156.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"487\" height=\"327\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>ROME, Sept 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; A 4.8-magnitude earthquake struck central Italy north of Florence on Monday morning, sending residents into the streets but causing no immediate damage, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Schools were closed in some areas as a precaution and trains were delayed pending checks on the railway lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Italy&#8217;s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) measured the quake at 4.8 on the Richter scale, with its epicentre near Marradi, a town of about 3,000 residents in the province of Florence within the Apennine mountain range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It occurred at 5:10 am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Firefighters wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that frightened residents had been calling emergency services but &#8220;no personal injuries have been reported at this time&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mayor of Marradi, Tommaso Triberti, told Rainews24 television that firefighters were conducting checks inside private homes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;There is a lot of concern. All the people are in the street but no particular damage has been reported,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A 4.5-magnitude earthquake struck nearby Mugello in 2019, again causing minimal damage but cracking the facade of a 17th-century church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The town of Mugello was hit by a devastating earthquake in 1919, one of the century&#8217;s worst, killing about 100 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The central Apennines are at high risk of seismic activity.\u00a0&#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROME, Sept 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; A 4.8-magnitude earthquake struck central Italy north of Florence on Monday morning, sending residents into the streets but causing no immediate damage, authorities said.\u00a0 Schools were closed in some areas as a precaution and trains were delayed pending checks on the railway lines. Italy&#8217;s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":237326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237325"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=237325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237327,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237325\/revisions\/237327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/237326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}