4.2-magnitude quake rocks province of Potenza - General News

It is the last of the numerous earthquakes that have hit the south of Italy in recent days and that add to the seismic activity that continues in the area of Campos Flégreos, the volcanic caldera located on the periphery of Naples Read

An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.2 was recorded at 10:01am by the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) in the province of Potenza: the Italian Situation Room of the Department of...

4.2-magnitude quake rocks province of Potenza - General News

A 4.2 magnitude earthquake rocked the provinces of Potenza and Matera in the southern region of Basilicata on Tuesday. (ANSA)

An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.2 was felt very clearly in Potenza and Matera a few minutes ago, around 10 a.m.

The earthquake, which comes less than a week after an earthquake that caused scenes of panic last Thursday in the town of Naples, has particularly affected Vaglio Basilicata, where the epicenter is located, but it has also felt in Apulia.

The National Institute of Geophysics and Vulcanology of Italy (INGV) has recorded at 10:01 hours on Tuesday an earthquake of magnitude 4.2 of the Richter scale with epicenter to 14 kilometers of depth in the province of Potenza, in the region of Basilicata, in the south of Italy. The tremor, followed by another shock of 2.2, and slightly inferior to the one that last week suffered the province of Naples, has not caused damage neither to people n…