Teramo, Italy News

Twenty-eight Filipino nuns were affected by the powerful earthquake that recently shook Abruzzo in Italy.

The earthquake aftershocks continued yesterday in the Abruzzo region of Italy, sending Italian Americans around the region to their phones and computers to check on the safety and needs of family members.

WITH THE widely anticipated announcement of an impending judicial enquiry, a strange sort of normality returned to the earthquake-devastated region of Abruzzo in Italy at the weekend.

PM Silvio Berlusconi declared the "State of emergency" this morning, after last night's strong quake that hit the L'Aquila province , in Abruzzo , according to Repubblica.it. Berlusconi, who was also supposed to fly to Moscow today, cancelled his agenda to go to L'Aquila. The death toll is currently at 27.

The bell tower of L'Aquila's 16th-century San Bernardino church, above -- its own construction delayed by 15th-century quakes -- and the cupola of the Baroque Sant'Agostino church fell.

Italy's powerful earthquake damaged churches, palaces and medieval towers in a region devastated repeatedly by quakes in past centuries.

Central Italy was hit by the worst earthquake in almost three decades, killing more than 70 people and leaving as many as 50,000 homeless.

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