Honorable Mention TOKYO-2016 Editorial / General News

Earthquake in central Italy

  • Photographer
    Alessio Paduano

On August 24, 2016 at 03:36 a 6.0 magnitude earthquake (Richter scale) struck central Italy, killing about 297 people. The most affected area by the earthquake were Amatrice, Accumoli and Pescara del Tronto. According to the experts of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) to cause the earthquake was the "stretching" of the Apennines, namely its extension process from East to West.