Online:
Visits:
Stories:
Profile image
By Natural Disasters Today
Contributor profile | More stories
Story Views

Now:
Last Hour:
Last 24 Hours:
Total:

Quake-triggered avalanche buries Rigopiano hotel in Abruzzo, Italy

Thursday, January 19, 2017 9:06
% of readers think this story is Fact. Add your two cents.

(Before It's News)

italy_earthquake_2017_epicenter_map
January 18, 2017: A series of four earthquakes rattled Central Italy between Abruzzo, Lazio, the Marche and Umbria regions triggering avalanche which buried the Rigopiano hotel in the Gran Sasso mountain near Farindola in the Abruzzo region.
Update January 19, 2017
According to the state-run news agency ANSA, at least three bodies have been pulled from the snow amid the slow search.
Main Post
First earthquake was of magnitude 5.3 which struck 25 km northwest of L’Aquila on 18 January at 10:25 local time. It was followed by a stronger 5.7 tremor at 11:14 local time. The third earthquake of magnitude 5.6 struck 11 minutes later. The fourth earthquake of magnitude 5.2 was registered at 14:33 local time.

The earthquake-triggered avalanche buried the Rigopiano hotel at a ski resort in central Italy, leaving up to 29 hotel guests and workers missing or dead.
Italy’s Civil Protection department said overnight that it dispatched a team of 20 rescuers including seven firefighters, two mountain rescue teams and six ambulances. 
According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the earthquakes occurred as the result of shallow normal faulting on a NW-SE oriented fault (or faults) in the Central Apennines. 
The central Apennine region has experienced several significant earthquakes in recorded history. The largest instrumentally recorded earthquake within 100 km of the 2016-17 events was the January 13, 1915 M 6.7 earthquake.



Source: http://www.disaster-report.com/2017/01/earthquake-avalanche-rigopiano-hotel-abruzzo-italy.html

Report abuse

Comments

Your Comments
Question   Razz  Sad   Evil  Exclaim  Smile  Redface  Biggrin  Surprised  Eek   Confused   Cool  LOL   Mad   Twisted  Rolleyes   Wink  Idea  Arrow  Neutral  Cry   Mr. Green

Top Stories
Recent Stories

Register

Newsletter

Email this story
Email this story

If you really want to ban this commenter, please write down the reason:

If you really want to disable all recommended stories, click on OK button. After that, you will be redirect to your options page.