Fire officials wrote to X that there were no reports of damage or calls for help.
Rome:
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake struck Italy’s southern Calabria region late Friday, but there were no immediate reports of damage.
According to the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), the earthquake occurred three kilometers west of Pietrapaola in the province of Cosenza on the Ionian Sea.
Fire officials wrote to X that there had been no reports of damage or calls for help, but checks were underway.
Pietrapaola Mayor Manuela Labonia told RaiNews 24 that “the situation is calm.”
But, she said, residents felt “different tremors, less strong” after the first quake, and “we are all on the streets.”
The head of INGV, Carlo Doglioni, told RaiNews 24 that there had been several tremors in the area in recent days and that the agency was monitoring the situation.
“We don’t know if this is the maximum (tremor) in the series,” Doglioni said.
On social media, some people reported feeling the earthquake as far away as Bari, Puglia, some 250 kilometers (150 miles) north.
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