Friday, November 4, 2016
Italy's worst earthquake in 30 years adds to cracks in Colosseum amid fears dormant volcano near Rome is 'waking up'
Italy's worst earthquake in 30 years has added to cracks in Rome's Colosseum, it has emerged.
Officials say the 6.6-magnitude tremor that struck in central Italy on Sunday morning had put extra strain on the capital's 2,000-year-old arena.
It comes as it emerged that a dormant volcano 12 miles south of the Eternal city may be reawakening after experts found signs of activity deep below the surface.
Italy's worst earthquake in 30 years has added to cracks in Rome's Colosseum (file picture), it has emerged
A dormant volcano in the Alban Hills (file picture) 12 miles south of the Eternal city may be reawakening after experts found signs of activity below the surface
Scientists say magma has started building up about five miles below the surface prompting fears the Alban Hills is reactivating while the ground is reportedly rising by 3mm a year.
However, an eruption is not imminent and would not take place for about a thousand years, according to experts from the National Institute of Geophysics and Vulcanology and La Sapienza University, the Telegraph reports.
The research, pubished on Geographical Research Letters, reconstructed the geological history of 600,000 years of the Alban Hills as they examined the 'cyclicality' of eruptions.
It comes as Rome continues to assess damage from one of the fiercest earthquakes in decades over the weekend.
The quake hit some 105 miles from the Italian capital in Norcia, in the country's Umbria region, early on Sunday morning - just two months another earthquake killed 300 people in the same region.
Cracks believed to be caused by the earthquake in central Italy can be seen on a wall of the Saint Eustace church in Rome, Italy
Rome's mayor Virginia Raggi said checks were being carried out on buildings and the city's evacuation plan was being updated. A crack is shown in the capital's Saint Eustace church
The earthquake was so powerful it is understood to have added fresh cracks to world famous landmarks in Rome, including the Colosseum.
An official involved in the Colosseum's upkeep said Sunday's tremor had put extra strain on the 2,000-year-old arena.
Officials say the 6.6-magnitude tremor that struck in central Italy on Sunday morning had put extra strain on the capital's 2,000-year-old arena.
It comes as it emerged that a dormant volcano 12 miles south of the Eternal city may be reawakening after experts found signs of activity deep below the surface.
Italy's worst earthquake in 30 years has added to cracks in Rome's Colosseum (file picture), it has emerged
A dormant volcano in the Alban Hills (file picture) 12 miles south of the Eternal city may be reawakening after experts found signs of activity below the surface
Scientists say magma has started building up about five miles below the surface prompting fears the Alban Hills is reactivating while the ground is reportedly rising by 3mm a year.
However, an eruption is not imminent and would not take place for about a thousand years, according to experts from the National Institute of Geophysics and Vulcanology and La Sapienza University, the Telegraph reports.
The research, pubished on Geographical Research Letters, reconstructed the geological history of 600,000 years of the Alban Hills as they examined the 'cyclicality' of eruptions.
It comes as Rome continues to assess damage from one of the fiercest earthquakes in decades over the weekend.
The quake hit some 105 miles from the Italian capital in Norcia, in the country's Umbria region, early on Sunday morning - just two months another earthquake killed 300 people in the same region.
Cracks believed to be caused by the earthquake in central Italy can be seen on a wall of the Saint Eustace church in Rome, Italy
Rome's mayor Virginia Raggi said checks were being carried out on buildings and the city's evacuation plan was being updated. A crack is shown in the capital's Saint Eustace church
The earthquake was so powerful it is understood to have added fresh cracks to world famous landmarks in Rome, including the Colosseum.
An official involved in the Colosseum's upkeep said Sunday's tremor had put extra strain on the 2,000-year-old arena.
Credit to Dailymail.co.uk
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3893068/Italy-s-worst-earthquake-30-years-adds-cracks-Colosseum-amid-fears-dormant-volcano-near-Rome-waking-up.html
GERMANY AT BOILING POINT: Furious mob takes to streets hunting and attacking migrants
GETTYMigrants fled from the mob fearing for their livesTwo refugees fled for their lives from the right-wingers who screamed insults and threats after them.
Police were out in force at the time of the confrontation but apparently did not act until the refugees began to run from the mob who had gathered at the city’s Holzmarkt.
One of the asylum seekers was hit by a bicycle ridden by one of his pursuers and suffered a cut from a stone which hit him.
Police rescued a second youth and took him away in a patrol car.
The town has had a nightly curfew for unaccompanied minor refugees since the violent events of mid-September when nearly 80 neo-Nazis chased 19 asylum seekers through the streets after exchanging insults in a main square.
This time the far-right opponents of refugees took to cars and bikes to chase the migrants who told police they genuinely felt in fear of their lives.
Like in the previous incident, the confrontation escalated after both groups exchanged verbal insults.
GETTYThe incident started off with verbal assaults between the right wingers and migrantsThe incident has highlighted once again the seething resentment that the far-right has for refugees who are spread out in accommodation centres across the country.
One week after the initial incident in Bautzen, neo-Nazi youths shouting 'foreigners out!' beat up an elderly man in the town.
The 72-year-old German citizen with Algerian roots was set upon by thugs who punched him to the ground.
They hurled racial epithets at him before fleeing and have so far not been caught.
GETTYOne migrants suffered injuries after being hit by a stoneIn February, a cheering crowd was seen outside a burning asylum-seeker shelter in Bautzen, clapping and shouting: "Good, that's up in flames."
That same weekend, a video emerged of neo-Nazis intimidating refugee children, preventing them from getting off a bus to get to another shelter in Clausnitz.
Germany recorded more than 1,000 attacks on refugee shelters last year - a five-fold rise over 2014.
Bautzen mayor Alexander Ahrens met members of far-right groups in October in a bid to try to learn their motivation for violence.
Credit to express.co.uk/
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/727852/Germany-boiling-point-furious-mob-takes-streets-hunting-attacking-migrants
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