One of the most powerful earthquakes to hit Naples in decades has rocked the Italian city and surrounding region, sending people running into the streets.
Local residents reported hearing a ‘roar’ and feeling a ‘strong tremor’ as the 4.6-magnitude quake struck at around 9.15am.
The epicentre of the earthquake was just off the coast of the highly active Phlegraean Fields, a volcanic caldera west of the city, at a depth of 1.5 miles.
It measured the same magnitude as an earthquake recorded in the region on March 13, the strongest to hit the region in 40 years.
‘We rocked a lot… I’m still shaking,’ one woman, living in the Vomero district of the city, told La Repubblica.
Another local, who lives in the Fuorigrotta suburb, described the experience as ‘terrifying’.
