
Fire officials wrote on X that there were no reports of damage or calls for help.
Rome:
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake struck the southern Italian region of Calabria late Friday, but there were no immediate reports of damage.
According to the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), the epicenter of the earthquake was three kilometers west of Petrapola in the province of Cosenza in the Ionian Sea.
Fire officials wrote on X that there have been no reports of damage or calls for help, but the investigation is ongoing.
Pietrapaola mayor Manuela Labonia told RaiNews 24 that “the situation is calm”.
But, he said, residents felt “second shocks, less strong” after the first quake, and “we’re all in the street.”
The head of the INGV, Carlo Duglioni, told RaiNews 24 that various tremors have been felt in the area in recent days, and the agency is monitoring the situation.
“We don’t know if this is the maximum (earthquake) in the sequence,” Duglioni said.
On social media, some people reported feeling the quake as far north as Bari, Puglia, about 250 kilometers (150 miles) away.
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