What the records say
- When
- 31 Oct 2002
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 5.7
- Where
- Italy
- Coordinates
- 41.79° N, 14.87° E
- Deaths
- 30
- Injuries
- 135
- Damage musd
- 796
- Intensity mmi
- 7
- Depth km
- 10
2002 Molise earthquakes
Earthquakes in Italy
Two earthquakes hit the Italian regions of Molise and Apulia on 31 October at 10:32:58 (UTC) and 1 November at 15:09:00 (UTC). The shocks had magnitudes of 5.9 and 5.8 Mw respectively. Most of the victims were killed and injured when a school collapsed in the town of San Giuliano di Puglia: 26 of the 51 schoolchildren died, together with one of their teachers.
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- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “2002 Molise earthquakes”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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