One hundred and fifty people, the earthquake in Italy, the authorities declare emergency

Italian news agency quoted medical sources as to the outcome of the earthquake that struck the historic city of Aquila, capital of central province of Abruzzo and the surrounding mountain areas early on Monday reached 150 dead and about 1500 injured. The quake, which measured 6.4 on the Richter scale, the displacement of thousands of people amidst the destruction of large areas of the entire long. The Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, a state of emergency region, where the quake took place, as for a scheduled visit to Moscow.

the analist can not be the final statistics of the damage due to the strength of the quake, was quoted as saying that local authorities needed more time to determine the losses.

High toll
Continue rescue operations and the lifting of the rubble, amid fears of a large number of people injured or buried under the rubble following the collapse of thousands of homes.
For his part, explained Mayor Massimo Aquila Kialante that the quake caused the displacement of between fifty and sixty thousand people, but it was not clear whether these estimates include areas surrounding the city or not. While officials said body protection field have been processed with all the stadiums needed for the reception of those affected. As health authorities announced in Aquila the city's main hospital, the evacuation of all patients in anticipation of the collapse of at least parts of it due to the earthquake, which caused serious cracks and badly broken.
Destruction
In the capital Rome, the President of the Chamber of Deputies Gianfranco Ferre earthquake that survey map of the entire towns and left more than 15 thousand houses have been broken or flawed, partial, an area known throughout the ancient buildings, some dating to the medieval. The government had announced earlier Monday amid the country's north-east of Rome, a disaster area, and allocated an urgent financial aid in time headed police forces and the army, backed by helicopters and dogs to join the rescue work. In this framework, the sources said that the crews of these teams were able to save a number of survivors from the rubble of a building rising in the forty-storey Aquila, although there is great hope of finding more survivors, because you hear the voices of some trapped in the rubble. Official sources said the police that the bulk of the damage caused by the earthquake was in Aquila and towns and Baganmeka Boggio Bekeanz and Castelonobo and Fossa and Tuhtani. The same sources pointed out that the quake cut power and telephone lines, and the closure of the highway leading to the capital. The American Board of seismic monitoring in advance of an earlier announced that the earthquake that struck central Italy which reached 6.4 on the Richter scale and centered in the north east of the historic city of Aquila.
Italian officials said the earthquake had occurred hours after the earthquake measuring 4.6 on the Richter scale hit the province of Emilia Romagna, and was felt by residents over a wide area Marchih region on the Adriatic coast.
Italian scientists had predicted the earthquake
In this context, the media reported that the world was expected to Italy weeks before the earthquake occurs, but charges against him were surprised by the publication of a communication panic. Indeed, a small bus that toured the coastal town of Aquila with a month ago, a student of people evacuate their homes after the issuance of a warning Jiachino Giuliani. Today, when the Prime Minister at a news conference about whether the Government had secured the population in the light of warnings Giuliani, Berlusconi took a defensive tone, saying that this time should focus on relief efforts, "and we can discuss later the question of expected earthquakes." Is worth mentioning that Italy is at the intersection of Vagayn Anhdamyin making it one of the areas most vulnerable to the dangers of European earthquakes and volcanoes. In 1997 an earthquake killed 13 people, struck the region of central Italy devastated hundreds of historic buildings, archaeological sites, and the year of 2002 killed thirty people, including 27 pupils of their school collapsed when the earthquake hit the village of San Gueleano de Ioiglia.