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Italy Hit with Tsunami Alert Amid Mass Evacuation Following Huge Earthquakes
Authorities ordered evacuations and building checks after 12 quakes, including a magnitude 5.7 shock, struck the Tyrrhenian Sea.
- On Friday, Italy's national tsunami warning system issued an orange advisory for coastal areas following a series of earthquakes in the Tyrrhenian Sea off Sicily.
- At least 12 quakes struck the Tyrrhenian Sea on Friday, including a magnitude 5.7 tremor and a magnitude 4.9 quake earlier that morning, according to the USGS and National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology.
- The epicenters of the two strongest quakes were about 5 miles apart and about 6 miles below the surface, located about 33 miles north of Leni and less than 60 miles from Palermo.
- Schools in Palermo and Messina were evacuated as a precaution, while Salvo Cocina, head of the Sicilian Civil Protection, ordered an immediate state of alert for affected municipalities.
- Officials reported no injuries or structural damage as of Friday, though the advisory remains active with authorities urging residents to stay out of the water and avoid boating.
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Italy hit with tsunami alert amid mass evacuation following huge earthquakes
Italy has been hit with a tsunami alert and mass evacuations after a region off the coast was hit by 12 earthquakes in the space of a few hours. The tremors struck the island of Sicily, just off mainland Italy, around 12.20pm local time on Friday afternoon. Palermo and Messina were hit hardest, with the strongest quake […]
Several earthquakes hit the south of the Tyrrhenian Sea on Friday. Among the people there was great fear, which was further fired by a tsunami warning.
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More than a dozen earthquakes shook the area north of Sicily this Friday and forced to evacuate schools in Palermo
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