Italy’s Campi Flegrei region was hit by a strong earthquake late Friday, injuring 21 people and damaging unoccupied buildings near Naples.
ROME: A 4.7-magnitude earthquake west of Italy’s city of Naples caused 21 injuries and damage to properties, authorities said on Saturday, a day after the seismic tremor.
The quake had occurred late Friday in the Campi Flegrei area, at a depth of three kilometres (two miles), according to Italy’s Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV).
The area, site of Europe’s largest volcanic crater, is home to frequent seismic activity.
Friday’s quake was followed by a night of lower-intensity aftershocks.
Italy’s civil protection service said that, of the 21 people injured, two of them required emergency hospital treatment.
The earthquake also caused “the collapse of several unoccupied buildings” and landslides, Italy’s minister for civil protection, Nello Musumeci, said on social media.
