August 2016 Central Italy earthquake

2016 Central Italy earthquake

UTC time	??
Magnitude	6.2 ± 0.016 Mw
Depth	4 ± 1 km (2.49 ± 0.62 mi)
Epicenter	42.706°N 13.223°E / 42.706; 13.223
Type	Normal
Areas affected	Italy
Max. intensity	IX (Violent)
Casualties	≈ 281 deaths ≈ 388 injured 2,500 homeless

An earthquake, measuring 6.2 ± 0.016 on the moment magnitude scale, hit Central Italy on 24 August 2016 at 03:36:32 CEST (01:36 UTC). Its epicentre was close to Accumoli, with its hypocentre at a depth of 4 ± 1 km, approximately 75 km (47 mi) southeast of Perugia and 45 km (28 mi) north of L'Aquila, in an area near the borders of the Umbria, Lazio, Abruzzo and Marche regions. At least 281 people have been killed and dozens more are missing.

Victims

Gender	GivenName	Surname	City	Age
male	Benvenuto	Mazzi	Limbiate	16
female	Tabita	Napolitano	Rivergaro	22
male	Bernardo	Barese	Guagnano	95
male	Carmen	Folliero	Seis am Schlern	23
male	Umberto	Mancini	Ospedaletto Di Gemona	37
male	Macario	Napolitano	Katharinaberg	66
male	Lionello	Bellucci	Refrancore	18
female	Gisella	Napolitani	Predosa	36
male	Valentino	Marino	Toscolano	23
female	Lionella	Lucchese	Villa Agnedo	20
female	Pupa	Mazzi	Manciano	4
male	Girolamo	Udinesi	Palmiano	34
male	Ubaldo	Boni	Porcia	26
male	Delfino	Boni	Castel Madruzzo	52
female	Gaudenzia	Toscano	Colonnata	11
male	Ignazio	Costa	Latte	76
male	Ludovico	Lori	Liveri	48
female	Teresa	Lettiere	Ronco Briantino	81
female	Roberta	Palermo	San Vittorino Amiterno	80
male	Cassio	Nucci	Bagnoli Di Sopra	91
female	Rossana	Bellucci	Fossone	71
male	Leonardo	Mancini	Arabona	68
male	Orazio	Pisano	San Paolo	86
female	Adele	Genovese	San Nicola	49
male	Geraldo	Calabrese	Brescia	3
female	Beata	Fiorentini	Linate Paese	98
male	Fidenzio	Zetticci	Prags	94
male	Massimiliano	Trevisan	Seui	55
male	Proserpio	Pinto	Pioltello	87
male	Donnino	Palermo	Mulargia	19
female	Rosita	Lo Duca	Prizzi	91
male	Oberto	Baresi	Croce Ferrata	76
female	Bonacata	Cattaneo	San Miniato Basso	86
male	Galeazzo	Greco	Silvano Pietra	22
male	Duccio	Zito	Toano	23
male	Pio	Calabresi	Montealbano	75
male	Ludovico	Iadanza	Pollein	61
male	Quinto	Lorenzo	La Rustica	89
female	Adele	Udinese	Villa San Giovanni In Tuscia	99
female	Romola	Mancini	Selva Di Grigno	7
male	Adelmio	Padovesi	Amato Di Taurianova	50
male	Manfredo	Loggia	Castelnovetto	6
female	Maura	Cattaneo	Monchio Delle Corti	5
male	Jacopo	Manfrin	Rescaldina	93
female	Daniela	Napolitani	Valeggio Lomellina	24
female	Liviana	Siciliani	Castello	24
female	Lorena	Padovano	Mira	51
female	Imelda	Romano	Piraino	1
male	Filippo	Trevisano	Roma	9
male	Basso	Milanesi	Bagni Di Lucca Villa	17
female	Liliana	Ricci	Castiglione	28
female	Proserpina	Genovesi	Paola Santuario	88
female	Demetria	Mazzi	Civitella San Paolo	59
female	Anselma	Costa	Gagliano Di Mugello	24
male	Palmiro	Sabbatini	Gerosa	29
female	Alfreda	Fanucci	San Cipirello	88
male	Ireneo	Romano	Roma	91
male	Doroteo	Baresi	Livorno	88
male	Baldassarre	Castiglione	Ponsacco	63
female	Santina	Milani	Castelvecchio Di Santa Maria Maggiore	82
male	Benigno	Marchesi	Crespano Del Grappa	3
female	Vincenza	Moretti	Cattolica Eraclea	30
male	Landolfo	Panicucci	Sarego	33
female	Santina	Bellucci	Coltaro	70
male	Bellino	Ferri	Piegaio	95
male	Macario	Gallo	Sa Lumenera	73
female	Delfina	Fiorentino	Piozzo	80
male	Gaspare	Lorenzo	Casola	62
female	Lucia	Angelo	Vicomoscano	93
male	Baldassarre	Iadanza	Castelnuovo Nigra	90
male	Landolfo	Conti	Mezzano Rondani	47
female	Ginevra	Lucchese	Fraconalto	83
female	Lara	Endrizzi	Mongiove	48
female	Olimpia	Sagese	Taranta Peligna	8
female	Carola	Ferrari	Rasura	94
female	Luisa	Ricci	Calatafimi	99
male	Medardo	Udinesi	Talava	46
female	Fedra	Lucchese	Bargagli	27
female	Luisella	Bianchi	Melissa	51
female	Delmina	Milano	Licusati	86
male	Rodrigo	Napolitano	Tecchiena	0
male	Igino	Bellucci	Mareno Di Piave	25
male	Donato	Lucchesi	Villa Botteri	80
female	Maria Luisa	Davide	Lusen	66
male	Beato	Trentini	Pieve Al Toppo	25
female	Cirilla	Loggia	Spigno Monferrato	68
female	Fabiola	Greece	Valcava	45
male	Albino	Palermo	Lauro	9
male	Lorenzo	Romano	Zagarise	91
male	Livio	Piazza	Linpiddu	70
male	Basilio	Lucchese	Paupisi	45
male	Osvaldo	Li Fonti	Dardago	19
male	Arsenio	Napolitani	Fiorana	15
male	Massimiliano	Panicucci	Torre De' Busi	55
female	Maddalena	Lorenzo	Montello	72
male	Ilario	Manna	Castel Frentano	23
male	Patrizio	Bellucci	Serramarina	35
female	Giada	Buccho	Sandigliano	71
male	Natalino	Loggia	San Maurizio	2
male	Lamberto	Genovesi	Montione	35
male	Benedetto	Lucciano	Marineo	64
male	Deodato	Bianchi	Campodenno	80
male	Germano	Giordano	Cariati Marina	55
female	Letteria	Dellucci	Budditogliu	9
male	Omero	Baresi	Golferenzo	92
female	Beatrice	Rossi	Meugliano	33
female	Calliope	Fiorentini	Borgo Revel	42
female	Germana	Genovesi	Cussignacco	80
male	Ilario	Napolitani	Ponte Della Persica	43
male	Arrigo	Endrizzi	Carpeneto	86
male	Albano	DeRose	Palermo	39
female	Alda	Davide	Fasano	64
male	Delfio	Rossi	Castellazzo Novarese	79
male	Secondo	Costa	Osasio	4
male	Alfredino	Panicucci	Agelli	84
male	Fabrizio	Davide	Basovizza	44
male	Lamberto	Lombardi	Sturno	80
female	Daniela	Pagnotto	Covolo	67
female	Amelia	Barese	Lemma	62
male	Cesare	Folliero	Casaletto Lodigiano	20
male	Benito	Milanesi	Mezzano Di Primiero	56
female	Frida	Pagnotto	Volpago Del Montello	8
female	Cornelia	Pirozzi	Fulgatore	79
male	Enzo	Gallo	Bovino	90
male	Vivaldo	Udinese	Trinitapoli	39
male	Marzio	Bruno	Varone	87
female	Ida	Panicucci	Sutri	57
female	Fioretta	Moretti	Is Murdegus	84
male	Sandro	Calabrese	Castelletta	92
female	Marilena	Cocci	Sant'Eustachio	97
male	Baldovino	Fallaci	Olda	58
female	Demetria	Nucci	Villafranca Di Verona	84
female	Santina	Beneventi	Offanengo	18
male	Ezio	Sal	Tortorella	16
female	Deodata	Buccho	Pozzillo	77
female	Edmonda	Fallaci	Cocquio	37
female	Giordana	Trevisan	Porto Azzurro	31
male	Vladimiro	Palerma	Monticchiello	70
male	Vincenzo	Monaldo	Morfasso	49
female	Alfonsina	Davide	Monteforte Irpino	17
male	Filippo	Piazza	Palinuro	21
male	Lucius	Lucchesi	Vivaro	95
female	Maria	Padovano	Orneta	48
female	Grazia	Schiavone	Veveri	34
male	Agenore	Lucciano	Mozzo	35
male	Dimitri	Marchesi	Pettinengo	80
male	Cosimo	Udinese	Scandriglia	84
female	Olga	Longo	Bergamo	56
male	Primo	Udinese	Salice Calabro	12
male	Furio	Pisano	Tolve	91
male	Leonide	Arcuri	Miglianico Di Chieti	87
male	Paolo	Napolitano	Fanano	14
male	Cristiano	De Luca	Fiesso Umbertiano	3
male	Sebastiano	Pinto	San Gregorio Nelle Alpi	35
male	Gerolamo	Lucciano	Fortezza	37
male	Gualtiero	Buccho	Mormorola	24
female	Eugenia	Capon	Tigliole	20
female	Rosaria	Fiorentino	Castell'Anselmo	74
female	Flora	Cocci	Altavilla Milicia	90
male	Michele	Lucchesi	Cadoneghe	46
female	Maria Rosa	Trevisano	Groppallo	21
female	Deodata	Pugliesi	Renate	29
female	Gerardina	Mazzi	San Michele Del Carso	78
female	Milena	Pirozzi	Fara Novarese	52
male	Alvise	Schiavone	Vieyes	47
male	Ermanno	Longo	Melicucca	77
male	Alighiero	Romano	Laurito	85
male	Mauro	Longo	Alzano Lombardo	28
female	Rossana	Angelo	Portanova	42
female	Alfonsina	Castiglione	Milano	55
female	Elvia	Buccho	Mileto	69
male	Guerrino	Colombo	Irgoli	23
male	Secondo	Padovano	Mozzecane	80
female	Viola	Russo	Soverato Superiore	34
female	Irma	Buccho	Riosecco	10
female	Quartilla	Li Fonti	Barumini	80
female	Ubalda	Buccho	San Gabriele Dell'Addolorata	92
female	Gerardina	Pisano	Verrua Po	54
male	Massimo	Toscani	Cavalo	100
female	Ubalda	Napolitani	Ripacorbaria	70
female	Valentina	DeRose	Dentecane	68
male	Affiano	Napolitani	Sestri Levante	64
male	Michele	Lori	Comacchio	9
male	Uranio	Trentini	Morgnano	37
female	Rebecca	Boni	Montegrimano	24
female	Maia	Lorenzo	Pietracamela	25
male	Duccio	Lorenzo	Morra	71
male	Geraldo	Rossi	Sant'Ilario Ligure	31
male	Ignazio	Costa	Scarcelli	58
male	Aimone	Baresi	Fenestrelle	12
female	Marzia	Buccho	Boffalora D'Adda	20
female	Giselda	Napolitano	Karneid	97
male	Castore	Boni	Ponteceno	14
male	Napoleone	Romani	Vangadizza	20
male	Fulvio	Cocci	Cislago	90
female	Claudia	Endrizzi	La Magdeleine	40
male	Chiaffredo	Li Fonti	Vas	99
male	Gastone	Padovesi	San Pietro Clarenza	35
female	Selene	Padovano	Castelnuovo Dell'Abate	9
female	Eulalia	Trevisan	Vezzano	50
male	Fosco	Siciliano	Cenadi	4
male	Iacopo	Folliero	Ussana	26
male	Raimondo	Lucchesi	Ponte Lambro	70
female	Agostina	Manfrin	Mungivacca	22
male	Abbondio	Bianchi	San Donato Milanese	31
female	Gaudenzia	Zito	Piandifieno	39
male	Pasquale	Baresi	Cislago	52
female	Ausilia	Greco	Monte Oliveto	4
male	Marco	Capon	Usseglio	48
female	Antonella	Ferrari	Santuario Di Vicoforte	92
male	Callisto	Schiavone	Ballino	56
male	Dino	Lori	Pompiano	35
male	Tullio	Pirozzi	Gorla	90
female	Clorinda	Monaldo	Terrazzo	69
male	Giacomo	Cocci	Altrei	91
male	Lillo	Marchesi	Lisciano	68
male	Gerardino	Boni	Gorgonzola	47
female	Itala	Udinesi	Lucca Sicula	87
female	Lilla	Lorenzo	Marcellano	25
male	Carlo	Bellucci	Palata	47
female	Viola	Palerma	Casoli	16
male	Castore	Monaldo	Sologno	95
female	Delmina	Ferrari	Borrello Di Catania	46
female	Ausonia	Marcelo	Pian Dei Ratti	48
female	Piera	Pinto	Pellegrina	13
male	Rodolfo	Lo Duca	Sarone	82
male	Boris	Barese	Purgessimo	87
female	Fiammetta	Palermo	San Castrese	95
female	Fiorenza	Manfrin	Pianopoli	65
female	Giuseppa	Lucchese	Vedano Olona	63
male	Luca	Monaldo	Alessandria	89
male	Rosario	Mazzi	Civitaquana	75
male	Lucius	Bianchi	Ceparana	14
male	Giulio	Onio	Brucoli	68
male	Regolo	Sagese	Monte Colombo	89
female	Angelica	Toscani	Porto Sant'Elpidio	12
male	Elide	Marino	San Nazzaro D'Ongina	13
female	Angelica	Zito	Tocco Caudio	78
female	Clelia	Baresi	Villa Caldari	61
female	Giuliana	Genovesi	Roma	48
male	Geronimo	Lucciano	Mezzano Superiore	38
female	Flavia	Sal	Arce	76
male	Isaia	Milani	La Corte	77
male	Oreste	Li Fonti	Melissa	63
male	Marco	Toscani	Busano	24
female	Agata	DeRose	Ponzano Monferrato	54
male	Natalino	Cattaneo	Pontedera	97
male	Franco	Marcelo	Cava De' Tirreni	29
female	Agostina	Nucci	Alvignanello	93
female	Fulvia	Zetticci	Villa Fornaci	35
male	Ubaldo	Cattaneo	Adrara San Rocco	79
female	Fabiola	Moretti	Quattordio	100
female	Natalia	Colombo	Ghivizzano	77
female	Adolfa	Esposito	Pometo	31
male	Bacco	Trevisan	Suaredda	79
female	Giacinta	Rizzo	Santa Lucia Battipaglia	60
male	Bonaventura	Beneventi	Murlo	71
female	Anna	Ricci	Lemma	46
male	Cornelio	Panicucci	Roma	21
male	Tullio	Trevisan	Marina Di Savelletri	80
female	Tranquilla	Loggia	Specchio	87
female	Regina	Lombardi	Colfosco	56
female	Cecilia	Cattaneo	San Pietro Vara	5
female	Pierina	Padovesi	Taverna Di Montalto Uffugo	85
female	Delinda	Calabresi	Brusatasso	28
female	Paola	Nucci	Badolato	42
male	Gregorio	Zetticci	Grimaldi	10
female	Eva	Russo	Levizzano	37
female	Nicoletta	Genovesi	Lettopalena	44
male	Duccio	Beneventi	Fornaci	98
female	Maria Pia	Trentini	Mordano	63
female	Venera	De Luca	Barbalaconi	72
male	Damiano	Pisani	Venetico	8
male	Clemente	Ricci	Masi	88
male	Agenore	Ferrari	Castiglion Fibocchi	69
male	Luigi	Lombardo	Cannalonga	50
female	Teresa	Trentini	Arasi	67
male	Alceo	Zito	Tezze	34
female	Gina	Marchesi	Madonna Della Pace	23
male	Emanuele	Bianchi	Lama Dei Peligni	36
female	Alberta	Lucchese	Sant'Ellero	79
male	Fedele	Gallo	Vitorchiano Stazione	26
female	Ella	Loggia	Buriano	19
male	Gino	Romano	Aldeno	84
female	Veneranda	Lettiere	Terragnolo	41
male	Adalgiso	Pinto	Careggi	45
female	Frediana	Sabbatini	Sant'Angelo Fasanella	28
female	Ileana	Endrizzi	Coreggia	73
male	Duilio	Cattaneo	Corniglia	2
male	Facino	Trevisan	Ospitaletto Mantovano	18
female	Antonella	Palermo	Campo Nell'Elba	40
female	Annunziata	Mancini	Calcarelli	78
male	Isidoro	Boni	Mazzarrone	15
male	Isauro	Fiorentino	Mediglia	81
female	Marina	Lorenzo	Osteria Grande	63
female	Marisa	Angelo	Lacedonia	74
female	Cornelia	Boni	Capranica	59
male	Igor	Esposito	Lierna	38
male	Principio	Lucciano	Venasca	26
female	Deodata	Davide	Arina	65

Background

The central Apennines is one of the most seismically active areas in Italy. The Apennines mountain belt were formed in the Miocene to Pliocene as a result of the ongoing subduction of the Adriatic Plate beneath the Eurasian Plate, forming a fold and thrust belt. During the Quaternary, thrust tectonics gave way to extensional tectonics, with the development of a zone of normal faulting running along the crest of the mountain range. The extension is a result of either subduction rollback or the opening of the Tyrrhenian Sea. In the Central Apennines the zone of extension is about 30 km wide, matching closely to the zone of observed extensional strain as shown by GPS measurements. Recent large earthquakes in this area have been caused by movement on SW-dipping normal faults.

This was the largest tremor since 2009, when an earthquake near L'Aquila in the Abruzzo region killed over 300 people and displaced about 65,000.

Earthquake

Magnitude of the Central Italy earthquake (6.0) and its aftershocks (most were less than 4.0); aftershocks continued to occur after the period shown here

Aftershock distribution, August 24-25.
Red: Main shock, Orange: 6 > M ≧ 4. Blue: 4 > M ≧ 3, Light blue: 3 > M

The initial earthquake was followed by at least 40 strong aftershocks. The quake was initially reported by INGV to have occurred at a depth of approximately 5 km (3.1 mi), with a magnitude of 6.0 M_w and epicentre in the comune of Accumoli. The USGS first reported an earthquake at a depth of 10.0 km (6.2 mi) with a magnitude of 6.4 M_w and epicentre South-East of Norcia, but subsequently revised the magnitude to 6.2 M_w. The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre put the magnitude at 6.1. The tremor and a number of aftershocks were felt across the whole of central Italy (from Rimini to Naples), including Rome, Florence, Bologna and Naples.

Damage and casualties

Early reports indicated severe damage in the town of Amatrice, near the epicentre, and in Accumoli and Pescara del Tronto. Sergio Pirozzi, the mayor of Amatrice, stated that "Amatrice is not here anymore, half of the town is destroyed." Photos of the destruction depicted a massive pile of rubble in the town's centre with only a few structures still standing on the outskirts.

As of 26 August 2016, the official figures of the Protezione Civile report that the earthquake caused the death of 281 people: 221 in Amatrice, 11 in Accumoli and 49 in Arquata del Tronto. Approximately 2,100 people found shelter in the emergency camps. At least 365 wounded had to be treated in hospitals, mainly in Rieti and Ascoli Piceno, while people with less serious injuries were treated in place. Approximately 4,400 people were involved in the search and rescue operations, including 70 teams with rescue dogs. Logistics made use of 12 helicopters, with 9 more in stand-by. Over 200 people were rescued from under the ruins of damaged buildings.

In addition to the loss of human life, widespread destruction of cultural heritage is also reported. In Amatrice, the facade and rose window of the Church of Sant'Agostino were destroyed, and the museum dedicated to the painter Nicola Filotesio, student and companion of Raphael, collapsed. The quake also created cracks in the Baths of Caracalla in Rome. The earthquake was so broad that authorities made structural tests on the Colosseum as well, which was not damaged.

See also

• List of earthquakes in Italy

External links

• Euronews: Italy's worst earthquake