Rome --A strong, 6.2-magnitude earthquake rocks central Italy in the middle of the night Wednesday.
According to NBC News "There are collapses along the roads that are blocking emergency vehicles. ..... In the village of Capodacqua, 15 houses have collapsed, but that has not been verified."
In Amatrice, population about 2,700, "there are people under the rubble," Mayor Sergio Pirozzi told Radio RAI. The town, he said, "isn't here anymore."
Fabrizio Curcio, director of the national Department of Civil Protection, said at a televised news conference that the earthquake was similar in scale to the magnitude-6.3 quake in April 2009 near the town of L'Aquila — just 30 miles southeast of Wednesday's epicenter — which killed at least 295 people.
The region has a history of recent deadly earthquakes. In addition to the 2009 quake, a magnitude-6.0 quake just 30 miles north-northwest killed 11 people and destroyed 80,000 homes in 1997.
Read Full News in NBC.Strong #earthquake rattles central Italy: 'The town isn't here' https://t.co/Sy2qdPqwyn pic.twitter.com/S3J27QSa2F— NDTV (@ndtv) August 24, 2016
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