I just found out about the earthquake that struck Northern Italy...OMG, we used to live there...right on the upper part, about an hour away from Austria...I can't seem to get rid of the lump in my throat now...wish that I could be there to help them get through this... I miss everything there..and I miss the clocktowers that I got to see each and everyday...I went up one just to look out of it when no one else was around...very high up, but so amazing being inside an Italian clock tower...hope that doesn't happen anymore for Italy...the Leaning Tower Of Pisa, I don't think could stand an earthquake, and I'd pass out if anything happened to the Vatican... :( I just found out that there was a small earthquake here in Alaska about a week ago, a very small one, and I slept right through it..never knew that there was one...nothing like the one we went through in Japan...http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/italy-earthquake-seven-dead-50-injured-authorities-154634480.html
According to Reuters, the quake damaged historic buildings including "the imposing 14th-century Estense Castle, symbol of the town of San Felice Sul Panaro and its most important building." In Finale Emilia, several cars were buried under rubble from a clock tower, which was destroyed in the quake.
At least seven people died and 50 were injured after a 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck northern Italy early Sunday, authorities there said.
According to CNN, two ceramic factory workers were killed in Sant'Agostino di Ferrara, another in a shed collapse in Ponte Rodoni di Bondeno, and three others in under rubble in various locations. Among the dead was a 106-year-old woman who was "killed in her bed by a falling roofbeam at her house in the countryside," Reuters reported.
A seventh victim died of an apparent heart attack during an evacuation in Bologna, CNN said, citing a spokeswoman for Italy's civil protection agency.
The quake struck just after 4 a.m. local time, with the epicenter between Modena and Mantova, about 22 miles north-northwest of Bologna, the U.S. Geological Survey said. Several aftershocks were also felt, and Italian authorities urged residents to remain outdoors.
"We have practically lost all our artistic patrimony," said Alberto Silvestri, mayor of San Felice, told the news service. "Churches and towers collapsed. The theater is still standing but has cracks."
The death toll is expected to rise as rescue workers search remote villages for victims.
More than 300 people were killed in 2009, after a 6.3-magnitude quake struck near L'Aquila, Italy.
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