Powerful earthquake in central and southern Italy destroys buildings

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6&period;6 has rocked the same area of central and southern Italy hit by a quake in August and a pair of aftershocks last week&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Thousands of people have been left homeless after a week of quakes and this latest tremor sent already damaged buildings crumbling&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Residents rushed into piazzas and streets after being roused from bed by the quake&comma; at 7&period;40am local time&period; But there were no immediate reports of injuries or deaths&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Many people had still been sleeping in cars after a pair of strong jolts last Wednesday&period; Others had been evacuated to shelters or hotels in other areas&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Television images showed nuns rushing out of their church and into the main piazza in Norcia as the clock tower appeared about to crumble&period; One had to be carried by firefighters&comma; while another was supported as she walked&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The mayor of quake-hit Ussita said a huge cloud of smoke erupted from the crumbled buildings&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><i>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It’s a disaster&comma; a disaster&excl;”<&sol;i> Mayor Marco Rinaldi told the ANSA news agency&period; <i>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I was sleeping in the car and I saw hell&period;”<&sol;i><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Another hard-hit city&comma; Castelsantangelo sul Nera&comma; also suffered new damage&period; And in Arquata del Tronto&comma; which had been devastated by the August 24 earthquake that killed nearly 300 people&comma; Arquata Mayor Aleandro Petrucci said&colon; <i>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;There are no towns left&period;”<&sol;i><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><i>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Everything came down&comma;”<&sol;i> he said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The quake was felt throughout the Italian peninsula&comma; as far north as Bolzano and as far south as Bari&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In Rome&comma; residents rushed into the streets&period; Ancient palazzi shook&comma; swayed and lurched for a prolonged spell&comma; and people took to Twitter to share their experiences of the quake&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The head of the civil protection authority in the March region&comma; Cesare Spuri&comma; said there have been reports of buildings collapsing in many cities&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Monks at the monastery of San Benedetto&comma; an international Benedictine community in Norcia&comma; tweeted an image of the Basilica of St Benedict destroyed by the earthquake&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The church had withstood the August earthquake in August and last week’s aftershocks&comma; and was still standing&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But television pictures showed piles of stone had accumulated at the bottom of one wall&period; One stone was thrown metres into the centre of the piazza&comma; illustrating the quake’s force&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><i>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We have to keep people calm&period; Prayer can help&period; I don’t want people to go searching for family members&comma;”<&sol;i> a firefighter appealed as cameras from SKY TG24 filmed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed2e4b0b8a8">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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