Residents in Naples, Italy, are recovering after a 4.4 magnitude earthquake hit the city. It is the most powerful earthquake the area has seen in 40 years. NBC News' Ellison Barber has more on the ...

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Dating of cosmogenic chlorine isotopes yields long-term estimates of fault activity in Italy, showing that periods of ...

Paolo Verzone It’s a typical day and Italy is shaking. I am standing in the monitoring room at the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, in Rome, and I watch the earthquakes taking ...

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Rescue crews in Italy find living among the dead The event fell between two relatively recent earthquake sites along the same fault line. Back in 1997, a magnitude 6.0 quake left 11 dead and ...

Some of the front runners could be Canadian cardinals Thomas Collins, 78, former archbishop of Toronto, who was named a cardinal in 2012 by Pope Benedict, and Quebec’s Cardinal Marc Ouellet, 80, head ...

On December 28, 1908, at approximately 5:20am, Europe's most powerful earthquake shook southern Italy. Centered in the Messina Strait, which separates Sicily from Calabria, the quake's magnitude ...

It also explores the causes of earthquakes. This resource has been updated with a case study and extra source material on the Central Italy earthquake of 2016. Every year, the Red Cross helps people ...