Italy’s major risks commission has cautioned that there may be more powerful earthquakes to come following two this week in the country’s mountainous center and a deadly one in August.
“There is no current evidence that the (seismic) sequence underway is coming to an end,” it warned.
The National Commission for the Forecast and Prevention of Major Risks (CGR) said that in the wake of the August 24 quake that killed nearly 300 people it had identified three areas at risk for further seismic activity.
The areas were “adjoining the fault responsible” for the disaster which levelled entire villages, it said in a statement referring to the fracture in the earth’s crust where quakes can occur.
They were areas “which have not seen recent, large earthquakes and could produce high-magnitude quakes (6-7),” it added.
Wednesday’s quakes (5.5 and 6.1 magnitude) “activated one of the areas identified by the commission, to the north of the August quake, while the other two did not move,” it said.

Source: Arab News