Quake damages buildings, sparks panic in Italy's Naples
A 4.4-magnitude earthquake struck the volcanic area around Naples overnight, causing several light injuries, damaging buildings and sending terrified residents into the streets, officials said yesterday.
The quake, which was followed by several much smaller tremors, was the biggest to hit the Campi Flegrei (Phlegraean Fields) area in southern Italy for 10 months.
It occurred around 1:25 am (0025 GMT) at a depth of 2.5 kilometres, according to the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), and raised residents from their beds.
'We can't go on like this, we can't sleep. We're scared,' one man told the Local Team news service in the middle of night in Bagnoli, a seaside district in western Naples.
Images broadcast by Italian media showed car windows smashed by falling masonry and damage to a church in Bagnoli, where schools were closed yesterday.
One women was hurt when her ceiling collapsed, while two or three other people went to hospital with cuts caused by shards of broken glass, according to Naples mayor Gaetano Manfredi.
A total of 11 people went to emergency rooms of local hospitals but several 'were cases of panic', he told reporters.
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said she was constantly monitoring the situation and was in contact with the relevant officials.
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