3.2 magnitude earthquake hits the province of Rome

According to the report published on the official INGV website, the earthquake occurred at 02:46 am on Sunday morning, and its epicenter was at a depth of 10 kilometers, and its epicenter was eight kilometers from the town of Colonna, which is inhabited by nearly four thousand people, and nine from Tivoli. community, with a population of approximately 60,000 people.

This is the second major Tellurian movement in that region, after the one that occurred at 2:07 pm local time on January 1, with a magnitude of between 3.1 and 3.6 and its epicenter in the Romanian municipality of Guidonia-Montegelio, a few kilometers from the capital.

During this morning, mild earthquakes of magnitude 3.5, 3.2 and 3.0 on the Richter scale were recorded in the regions of Emilia-Romagna, Lazio and Las Marches respectively, while at 09:38 local time one of 3.5 with an epicenter in the northern province of Forlì-Cesena, with a hypocenter on 19 kilometers deep, the institute said.

On January 12, INGV announced that in 2022 the Italian earthquake network recorded 44 earthquakes per day on average, with an average of one every half hour and a total of 16,302, a higher number than the number recorded in the previous year, while since 2019 on average, About 16,000 earthquakes occur annually in the country.

The most important seismic sequence of that period occurred on the morning of November 9 off the Adriatic coast of the municipality of Pesaro Marche, Marche region, with two earthquakes of magnitude 5.5 and 5.2 on the Richter scale and a subtle difference between them, and they were felt in a very wide area of ​​the center and north of the peninsula.

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The source said that the strongest earthquake in the continental territory was of magnitude 4.3 that affected the Ionian coast of the province of Catanzaro in the southern region of Calabria on October 13 at 00:44 local time.

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