WTF? Three more quakes in Central Italy

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Can these people take any more of this

http://news.sky.com/story/strong-earthquake-felt-in-rome-and-central-italy-region-10733082
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Three strong earthquakes have been felt in central Italy, with people in Rome saying they experienced the tremors, local media say.

The first quake measured a magnitude of 5.4 and was 60 miles north of Rome, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre said.

Two more of similar magnitude struck 50 minutes later around the same region and was felt in Rome, local media has reported.

The Metro in Rome has been evacuated, following the second quake after people reported feeling tremors there.

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. Officials fear many deaths in avalanche-hit hotel in Italy

The head of Italy's Civil Protection Agency Fabrizio Curcio told reporters at a press conference that "around 30 people are unaccounted for, between guests and workers at the Hotel Rigopiano in Farindola."
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Rescue crews, who had reached the hotel around 4:30am Wednesday morning following a 10 kilometer (6 mile) cross-country ski trek, said there were no signs of life in the hotel, local media reported. The force of the avalanche moved the hotel 10 some meters (33 feet).

One survivor was hospitalized after rescue crews pulled him from his car which had been parked outside the hotel. 38-year-old Giampaolo Parete had gone to his vehicle to retrieve something when the avalanche struck.

"I am alive because I went to get something from my car," he told medics, according to local media. Paolo believed his wife and children had been buried by the snow.

Local media also reported the rescue of a second survivor, though it remains unclear whether the individual had been inside or outside the building at the moment of impact.

http://www.dw.com/en/officials-fear-many-deaths-in-avalanche-hit-hotel-in-italy/a-37186135

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3. Damn

How awful

[NutmegYankee]

2. That country jailed Seismolgists for failing to predict the unpredictable.

Maybe their courts should investigate what's going on because I'm sure the scientists are afraid of being jailed for manslaughter.

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4. When you live in an earthquake zone

expect earthquakes. Like volcanoes they may not occur for ages but they come back.

It's like building in a 'former river bed'. One day that river will return for it's space.