Flood waters tossed cars around in Torre Archirafi on Wednesday dragging some into the sea after torrential rain near Catania in Sicily turned streets into rivers The streets have become rivers near Catania in Sicily Local people made over 30 requests for help to the emergency services There were no reports of anyone being unaccounted .. All of the 133 cardinals expected to take part in the secret conclave to elect a new Pope have arrived in Rome with the race to succeed Pope Francis seen as wide open AC Milan scored twice in two minutes to beat Genoa 2-1 in Serie A and keep alive their slim hopes of a place in next year’s Champions League from 46th in 2024 to 49th place in 2025 in the Press Freedom Index drawn up every year by Reporters Sans Frontières (Reporters Without Borders - RSF) Researcher and lecturer Flavia Marcello explores the fascist influence on the architecture of Rome the race for the fourth Champions League qualifying spot from Italy’s Serie A has become even tighter Napoli didn’t allow flares and delays to affect their performance as Antonio Conte’s side ground out a 1-0 win at Lecce to take firm control of Serie A in Italy Fiorentina have lost the first leg of their UEFA Conference League semifinal tie 2-1 away to Real Betis Inter Milan’s Serie A title defence is on the line with the busy champions chasing a fresher Napoli side who have the finishing line in sight Carlo Ancelotti has turned down the Brazil job and is mulling a mega offer to coach Saudi Arabia Spanish sports daily ‘Marca’ said Wednesday British director Ken Loach has blasted plans to tear down much of Milan’s iconic San Siro stadium to make room for a new home for Inter and AC Milan argues former inmate Carmelo Musumeci after almost 25 years of hostile life imprisonment and three degrees: 'You cannot change by being locked in a room They were arrested bad guys and remained so but prisoners have no confrontation with outside society' After almost a quarter of a century in prison (and three degrees) Carmelo Musumeci has a clear idea of how the penal system should work has a sentence associating him with the Mafia he still remembers his grandmother pointing at a man in uniform in the square: 'You grow up hating institutions where at the age of 16 he robbed a gambling den beginning his criminal career and later earning the nickname 'boss of Versilia' Musumeci's life changed after he committed a murder He entered prison in 1991 and was sentenced to hostile life imprisonment: benefits furloughs and conditional release are forbidden to prisoners who do not cooperate with the justice system in order to induce them to repent I presented my first request for a furlough but the surveillance magistrate rejected the request because in the grounds for the sentence it was written that I had committed the murder to facilitate the mafia association At that point I discovered the hostile life sentence and started my battle' From crime to community: the social reuse of confiscated assets in Italy, Spain and Romania It was then that Musumeci collected 700 signatures among lifers to provocatively ask the President of the Republic to change life imprisonment into the death penalty should become the rule: 'Prison must be the exception,' he argues Our Constitution does not speak of prison but of punishment and our Constitution was written by people who knew prison well' The prison institution should also change in order to act more effectively on the life path of prisoners: 'Why not give hope and a chance to get out to a boy arrested at 19-20 years of age and sentenced to life imprisonment Why should he change if he knows he will die in prison?" To those who tell him that prison has been good for him Musumeci replies that he feels he is 'the exception that confirms the rule': 'I entered prison with a fifth grade education I learnt about law and sharpened my weapons a little' He remembers when he obtained semi-freedom: 'The president of the Venice Surveillance Court I wanted to tell him that it is not a clinic for billionaires but I replied that prison has done me harm The love of my family and social relationships saved me' This is because 'many are born into evil and do not know good The Italian supreme court gives broader benefits to the families of innocent victims of mafias On the subject of collaboration - he warns - one must be careful especially with certain repentances of convenience: "One must not only focus on the law of collaborators of justice but try to intervene and improve the prisoner Those who decide not to cooperate are told 'you will come out a little later but they must be given the tools to change because alone it is not possible' the worst punishment for a convict is guilt: 'You cannot change locked in a cell It's too convenient: it's a boorish or cretinous revenge should be a place open to students or victims of crime Confrontation and forgiveness are two key words In prison you don't remember the evil done but what you receive every day: that makes you feel innocent' those who shot him six times then became 'repentant' and accused him of some crimes: 'For years I hated them but hatred is a poison that poisons those who feel it At a certain point I said to myself: 'Fuck the 'end of the sentence never' should also be questioned: 'One should not serve one day more you go to the emergency room and you break the other one too' It was unthinkable to be locked up in a cell and stay there twenty to thirty years Carcere Mafie mafie e povertà: chi guadagna e chi si ribella nella Sicilia delle emergenze La tua donazione ci servirà a mantenere il sito accessibile a tutti Ogni sabato la raccolta degli articoli della settimana per non perdere neanche una notizia. 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(See research paper) "The Protected Geographical Indication of the Etna Lemon (See related article) is an extremely important trademark because in addition to certifying its exact geographical origin it enhances its typical and unique organoleptic and cultivation characteristics These characteristics are made possible thanks to the extremely favorable microclimatic conditions that in synergistic action with the particular nutritional characteristics present in the soil of volcanic origin the Etna's network is engaged in the cultivation phases that with the appropriate agronomic interventions will lead to the harvest campaign of the Primofiore lemon The network is made up of companies with a long tradition specializing in citrus cultivation and who have decided to join forces in order to be able to offer the consumer a product available on the market with a wide commercial calendar The goals are to strengthen cooperation among members enhancing the processing and marketing network of the fresh supply chain while not to mention the potential opportunities provided by the companies in the processing industry For more information:Etna's Terra dei LimoniVia Vallone95024 Acireale (CT)[email protected]www.etnasterradeilimoni.it FreshPublishers © 2005-2025 FreshPlaza.com A HERO lift engineer was tragically crushed to death in a horrific accident as he tried to save a woman trapped inside had been working in between the lift cabin and a floor of a block of flats when the lift suddenly started to move The brave engineer had climbed into the lift shaft below the cabin as he attempted to carry out the repair work But the lift suddenly switched back to normal and started moving crushing Antonio's body in the process Firefighters were quickly rushed out to the two-storey building in Aci Sant'Antonio, Sicily where they were able to free Antonio's body from the lift shaft but Antonio was pronounced dead at the scene The crew of firefighters were able to finish the repair work and free the trapped woman The unnamed woman was taken to hospital to deal with the shock of having been trapped for so long and from learning that Antonio had died trying to save her A spokesperson for the Italian General Confederation of Labour in nearby Catania said: “The exact dynamics of the event are not known, but one thing is certain. “It’s unacceptable to lose a life due to a lack of safety conditions that should always be ensured.” One friend took to social media to express her grief writing: “Someone like you wasn’t supposed to leave this world “We shared 10 years of friendship and good times I will never forget all the times you cheered me up Another friend added: “I can’t believe I won’t receive your nightclub ads anymore Just four years ago, Lewis McFarlin, 24, was crushed to death whilst trying to repair a lift at a Müller Yogurt factory in Shropshire The company Lewis worked for was fined £200,000 following a Health and Safety Executive probe into his death at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court The firm pleaded guilty to failing to discharge the duty imposed on it by the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 Metrics details The implementation of analytical techniques able to certify food quality and origin in a fast and non-destructive way is becoming a widespread need in the agri-food sector Among the physical non-destructive techniques X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometry is often used to analyze the elemental composition of biological samples X-ray fluorescence (XRF) elemental profiles were measured on tomato samples belonging to different geographical areas in Sicily (Italy) The purpose of this investigation was aiming to establish a protocol for in-situ measurement and analysis able to provide quality assessment and traceability of PGI agri-food products specifically sustaining health safety and self qualifying bio-chemical signature sampling was performed in one of the most tomato productive area of south-eastern Sicily (Pachino district) characterised by a relative higher amount of Organic Carbon and Cation Exchange Capacity and compared with samples from other growing areas of Sicily Experimental data were analyzed in the framework of multivariate analysis by using principal component analysis and further validated by discriminant analysis The results show the presence of specific elemental signatures associated to several characterizing elements This methodology establishes the possibility to disentangle a clear fingerprint pattern associated to the geographical origin of an agri-food product Food nutritional and organoleptic characteristics as well as food origin and hygienic-sanitary conditions are fundamental requirements for quality assessment and safety with a direct impact in healthy eating and social wellness Identity and origin of a product from a peculiar and valuable geographical area are recognized by the European Community with the labels “Protected Geographical Indication” (PGI) and “Protected Designation of Origin” (PDO) These labels aim to safeguard the names of specific products to promote their unique characteristics connected with their geographical origin which are mainly responsible for the organoleptic properties of food often identifies the product genuineness and healthiness These are strictly related to the specific features of the territory of origin checking food origin by determining the characterizing elements becomes extremely important for traceability and in fighting food fraud during the whole production food authentication is especially necessary for branded products which are more susceptible to fraud than other products Province of Ragusa has the highest tomato production rate Yellow stars indicate the sampled sites of the present study The figure has been created by using Microsoft Excel Bing Maps Approximately 80% of the Sicilian greenhouse tomato production is located in the south-east of Sicily known worldwide for the production of PGI Pachino tomato Due to its strong connection with the peculiar features (soil and irrigation) of its territory it was the first Italian tomato to obtain the European PGI certification of quality As concerning tomato fruits without PGI certification they were harvested from five farms located in Acate tomato plants were grown on unheated greenhouses covered with polyethylene sheets by using an irrigation water with a salinity level lower than the Pachino district tomato typology and cultivar of the samples equipped with an X-ray tube (Rh anode) having a X-ray beam collimated at 3 mm in diameter was set to operate at an anodic voltage and current of 40 kV and 17 $\upmu$A implementing only the Ti/Al filter and “Pulp + Skin” sample typology were fitted by the Mca Hypermet fit function Background subtraction was performed through the PyMca “strip” algorithm by using a width of 25 channels; reduced $\chi ^2$ values of the fit were ranging from 1.02 to 1.48 In order to assess the best methodology in disentangling tomato samples according to their geographical origin three different data-sets were obtained from each measurement on a given sample which were subsequently used in the statistical analysis: “original spectrum” without background component and “element yields” net peak integrals associated with characterizing and in-trace elements XRF spectra associated to the “pulp” and the “pulp + skin” of D1 sample The spectra referred to the “D1—pulp” sample obtained by configuring the Bruker spectrometer with Cu/Ti/Al (0.006” Cu whereas XRF spectrum associated to “D1—pulp + skin” sample data global fit and background evaluation in red and green In (D) the comparison of XRF spectra after background subtraction for the “pulp” of D1 sample obtained by using Ti/Al/Cu and Ti/Al filters (blue and red line net XRF spectrum for the “pulp + skin” of D1 sample measured with Ti/Al filters is reported as a green line plot (E) reports the extracted element yield distributions concerning the three experimental configurations M1 This indicates that the choice of the filter used in the XRF apparatus does not significantly affect the obtained element distribution thus validating the overall fit and background subtraction procedure Element profiles of the “Pulp + Skin” samples agree within the error bars with those obtained by using “Pulp” ones In order to disentangle differences introduced by using different analysis methodologies PCA was performed on the three derived data-sets described above: raw XRF spectra net spectra (background subtracted) and element yield distributions The first two PCA data matrices (size 14x840) obtained from raw and background subtracted spectra were built by simply reporting in the rows the counts corresponding to the ADC channels (for a total number of 840 channels) and labelling the columns by the fourteen PGI tomato samples originating from Pachino and Ispica growing areas The third data matrix (size 14 $\times$ 29) was built by reporting in the rows the yields of the 29 obtained elements extracted after the fit and background subtraction procedure The PCA was performed on the standardized matrices K is the most characterizing element in samples collected in the territory of Ispica (farms 4 and 5) while Sr and Rb mainly characterize the tomato collected in farm 3 located in Pachino Finally Br is the dominant element in the tomatoes grown in farm 1 located in Pachino has the further advantage of preserving all the information contained in the spectrum often defined by the trace elements present in such small quantities that they cannot be disentangled from the background The pragmatic consequence leads to consider just the raw spectra as the most meaningful and complete pattern in order to perform a quick and easy authentication This kind of analysis protocol can be extended well beyond the biological case study although coming from farm 1 in the Pachino area separated from the other samples creating a third cluster according to their large differences with respect to the other samples PCA carried out on “pulp + skin” samples obtained from tomatoes with PGI and non-PGI certification (in A The biplots were obtained by the raw spectra data-sets The variables (vectors symbolizing tomato samples coming from PGI- and non-PGI sites) were distinguished by using different colours (in green PGI samples from Pachino district; in blue These results were confirmed by a further analysis of the element yields obtained by the overall fit of the spectra (see Supplementary material, Fig. S2), as previously done in Fig. 3 due to the effect of the raw data filtering Antonio (Catania) kept their position unchanged that the background subtraction resulted in a loss of information elemental differences of tomato samples from Ragusa Ispica and Pachino are sometime revealed by the presence of trace elements in such a small quantities that having an unfavorable signal/background ratio cannot be disentangled by using the fitting procedure and are washed out by the background subtraction the peculiar nutritional and organoleptic features of a foodstuff are the result of various external environmental factors including pedological and micro-climatic conditions and cultivation techniques Nitrogen (N) content and Extractable Potassium (K) content as reported in the LUCAS Soil database by considering the same surveyed geographical areas (sampling sites) each tomato sample was labelled according to its class respecting the geographical area of provenance DA plots obtained by using nine variables including the elements with larger yield (element to Argon ratio larger than one): observations are plot in (A) and variables are plot in (B) averaged element yields detected in the “pulp + skin” samples obtained from tomatoes with PGI and non-PGI certification harvested in Pachino (P1 Yields have been normalized to Argon yield for each region before being averaged Map data were obtained from OpenStreetMap (https://www.openstreetmap.org) affecting the vegetation systems and the soil fertility This experimental research does not involve plant species at risk of extinction Tomato samples for this study were kindly provided by farms’ owners without any payment and formal request for the collection of plant material The collection and use of any plant materials in this study are carried out in accordance with EU and Italian guidelines and regulations The XRF measurements and analysis carried out on tomatoes grown in different PGI and non-PGI sites confirmed the results achieved through the previous feasibility study demonstrating that XRF analytical technique is a reliable tool to authenticate products based on their geographical origin The measured XRF spectroscopic pattern can be associated to features of the tomato growing areas connected to soil composition to company management and to microclimatic conditions in the greenhouses evidenced the presence of characterizing elements such as Cl Rb characterizes the samples collected in the volcanic soils Zn and Sr can be considered as chemical markers of tomatoes from Scicli The results confirm the strong relationship between the quality of agri-food products and their territory of origin the complexity of the system under study (plant-man-environment) the correlation between food quality and territory of origin can be sometime unpredictable as it can be affected by exogenic events or by more invasive practices altering the nutritional composition of the fruit compromising the natural equilibrium between plant and environment generating “outliers” samples (well treated by the present multivariate approach) also make it difficult to authenticate products The XRF technique exhibits high reliability in detecting the chemical elements present in the tomato samples regardless of the instrumental conditions and the type of sample analyzed (pulp with and without skin) The presence of the skin made it possible to obtain a better discrimination of the samples due to the greater presence in it of some trace elements characterizing the tomato fruit composition including all the parts of fruit in the analysis leads to a better characterization due to the inclusion of a larger number of in-trace elements thanks to which we were able to uniquely associate the tomato samples to their territory of origin was mainly highlighted by the analysis of the full data-sets of spectra including the background signal The spectral analysis carried out as a whole minimizing the filtering related to the identification of the chemical elements allowed to better reveal the clustering within a non-homogeneous set of samples thanks to the inclusion of a more reliable and complete spectrometric information enriched by the contribution of microelements present in negligible concentration (often removed by background subtraction) The possibility of discriminating fruit and vegetables on the basis of their elemental profiles through rapid and non-destructive analysis techniques has very important implications in the agri-food sector which result in large-scale applications of XRF spectrometry aimed at controlling the food quality making information easily accessible by people not specialized in quantitative XRF analysis as it allows to bypass the critical procedures related to the background subtraction leading to the extraction of the element yields these results corroborate the application of the XRF measurements directly on-the-field bypassing the sample preparation procedure and the quantitative analysis of the spectra we have carried out some preliminary measurements on fresh tomato fruit which give solid perspectives for a future use of this technique in all the stages of the food chain (production the spectra obtained from freshly picked tomato fruits contained the same characterizing and trace elements identified in the dried “Pulp + Skin” samples we will extend the analysis on cherry tomato samples produced in 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Report: Aci Sant'Antonio e Zafferana pic.twitter.com/8VoAXhI9Ey Soviet spacecraft to crash land on Earth in less than 2 weeks Northeast: Days of showers and storms for some Soggy South Central states: Intense downpours to renew flooding risk Two people killed when small plane crashes into California homes Staffing shortage causes 7 days of major delays at Newark Airport Coyote drinks from Los Angeles salon's skylight The REAL ID deadline is less than a week away Fungi could be used to build homes one day Get AccuWeather alerts as they happen with our browser notifications Notices are posted by 10 am Monday through Saturday Adjust Text Size: A+ A- As published in Winnipeg Free Press on Nov 28 Share your memories and/or express your condolences below Unfortunately with the need to moderate tributes for inappropriate content your comments may take up to 48 hours to appear What were the places narrated by Giovanni Verga the greatest interpreter of Italian realism the latest interpreter of the school of Sicilian cart decorators is not far from the milestone of one hundred and three years When we went to visit him at Aci Sant'Antonio with his beret on his head and his hand resting on the arm support I'm not saying he looked like Claude Monet in the Giverny garden After having spent his life decorating floats - the good Domenico whose works are exhibited at the Quirinale and the White House began when he was twelve years old - he didn't want to hang up his brushes “I start early in the morning and stop at noon,” he told us Two years have passed and he has given up on the oars But anyone who wants can come to his house to see his works in person: hundreds of paintings crowding every corner and a Sicilian cart with the stories of the paladins of France you immediately understand that this is a special place in the past important names of the twentieth century came to visit the master: Salvatore Quasimodo «Dear Domenico – Carlo Levi told him one day – I won't go to Catania if I don't first see your colours» Today the last Sicilian cart decorators remain Domenico and Nerina Chiarenza The carts are no longer needed; Once upon a time there were many In the streets of Aci they competed by offering their services to the carters who came and went from the Catania plain loaded with grapes and wheat Those were the times when Domenico made colors with clay from Turkey that he bought in a shop in Catania placed a marble stone in the mortar and began to crush The strong and vivid colors with which he painted the paladins of France Now in Aci Sant'Antonio there is a museum dedicated to Sicilian carts and three date back to the end of the nineteenth century who paint by reviving the decoration technique No one even knows what the paladins were dressed anymore «And then the background color of the cart must be yellow or blue not all colors» urges the maestro who in 1983 stole the Maestro's Trophy from Renato Guttuso at the Etna d'Oro event a stone's throw from Nerina's house lives the Lanzafame family who still produce traditional Catanese puppets by hand: father Sebastiano carves the figures mother Agata assembles the pieces and daughter Marcella paints them The journey continues going down to the nearby one Acireale whose living room is splendid Piazza Duomo delimited by the large cathedral from the seventeenth century basilica of Saints Peter and Paul and the contemporary Palazzo Comunale in front of the historic Cipriani café stands the splendid basilica of San Sebastiano with a baroque façade studded with friezes Very interesting are the seventeenth-century Zelantea Library - with an adjoining art gallery which houses works by Albrecht Dürer Antoon Van Dyck and Mattia Preti - and the Puppet Opera Theatre (another is located in Capo Mulini with the museum displaying a beautiful collection of ancient puppets posters and theaters that evoke the era of Mariano Pennisi inspirer of the theater in 1887 and last descendant of a family of traveling puppeteers: although illiterate they knew theOrlando furious by Ludovico Ariosto and the Jerusalem liberated by Torquato Tasso told the audience – that my puppets are not made of wood but are real men Going down from Acireale towards the sea you arrive at the village of Santa Maria la Scala which can also be reached on foot along the Chiazzetta a panoramic path with seven hairpin bends (directions from Piazza Duomo) which descends to the sea through the Timpa Nature Reserve a lava plateau overlooking the Ionian Sea on which Acireale itself is built Traveling along the coastal road northwards from Santa Maria la Scala you find yourself in the so-called lemon riviera which runs parallel to the black lava cliff with the plume of Etna in the distance In addition to a countryside full of lemon groves there are the seaside villages of Santa Tecla Stazzo - with the small port dominated by the small church of San Giovanni Nepomuceno - and Pozzillo a small landing place in a quiet inlet with soft changing colors with little houses on the rocks and a few rowing boats It feels like flipping through a page of The Malavoglia the famous novel by the most illustrious son of this land It's not for nothing that we are a stone's throw away from Aci Trezza where a platoon of wooden boats carries the symbols and saints to rely on in the waves: just like Providence It is here at the end of the 800th century that the writer set the bitter story of a poor fishing family you can stock up on a large glass of seltzer a house drink which in Verga's novel took away the bitter taste in Maruzza La Longa's mouth when she saw her son 'Ntoni leaving for the military While sipping it it is possible to meet John the poet who until a few years ago accompanied tourists by boat to the islet of Lachea and the magnificent basaltic stacks that emerge in the middle of the sea Homer recounts inOdysseyto prevent him from escaping La Nespolo House – where in Verga's pages the Toscanos lived – is instead located a stone's throw from the church of San Giovanni It is next to the lava stone arch that the actors of the Fantasticheria association recall the events of the novel through touching literary animations Upon entering you find the courtyard with the medlar tree and beyond a small door the old fishing tools; there are also some letters that Verga wrote to his brother Pietro and the black and white photos given by the inhabitants who participated in the film in 1947 The earth trembles neorealist masterpiece by Luchino Visconti inspired by The Malavoglia After having eaten an excellent plate of spaghetti with cuttlefish ink in the trattoria da Gaetano a lively octogenarian who was one of the main actresses The fourteen-year-old face that appears in the film's poster is his but the other actors were also taken from the everyday life and jobs of Aci Trezza They had to play the part of the "little heroes" told by Verga; but what did a butcher know about sequence shots and acting pauses «Sometimes it took a day to shoot just one scene» says Agnese because the actors were illiterate.” For Visconti it was difficult to even convince the Trezzoti to participate in the film Those were years in which single women were looked at with suspicion: imagine what it meant to convince two parents to leave their daughters Nella and Agnese for seven months in the service of a director Continuing from the town you arrive at Aci Castello which appears halfway up the coast with the Norman manor house overlooking the spur of lava rock also a poet: I ask him to recite a few verses before visiting the botanical garden nestled between the ancient walls where Verga set the story The stories of Trezza castle where the writer spent the last years of his life The house is in Via Sant'Anna and displays the original furnishings as if he were to return home at any moment the dining room with the sideboard and the serving hatch connected to the kitchen a portrait from 1912 in which he shows his mustache To groom them properly he had to have a well-made mustache straightener: anyone who wants to check can find it here House of Memory of Palazzo Trao, Vizzini (about 60 kilometers from Catania passing Lentini and Carlentini) together with the other memorabilia belonging to the writer: the waistcoat the photos taken with the pioneering camera a beautiful portrait painted by Ulisse Sartini and a section dedicated to the films taken from his stories It is in this enchanting town nestled among hills carpeted with prickly pears that Verga was perhaps born And it is here that he set some writings: Mastro don Gesualdo There are several places linked to the stories: the church of Sant'Agata where Bianca Trao and Mastro Don Gesualdo get married the ancient district of Cunziria (the tannery) where the duel between Alfio and Turiddu takes place; o Piazza Santa Teresa where next to the 'Gna Nunzia tavern the company of the Teatro Skenè association represents some parts of the Cavalleria rusticana It is a street theater in harmony with the purest spirit of revival theater founded by Alfredo Mazzone the mayor-director who from the 1970s conceived of staging Verga's short stories in the places where he had imagined them: alleys small squares and churchyards became stages where actors such as Arnoldo Foà and Orso Maria Guerrini brought Verga's characters back to life by making their way through the people a precious relic of industrial archeology in decadent but evocative abandonment still shows the tanks where until the 1950s an anthill of men tanned animal skins all day long Did you like the itinerary for Giovanni Verga's places? 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09.00 alle ore 18:30 You can read this article in 2 minutesTrans.INFO A lorry driver has somehow escaped unharmed after a huge crash that saw his vehicle fall from an overpass onto the road below The accident happened near Catania in Italy on October 31st The clean-up operation took most of the following day — Vigili del Fuoco (@vigilidelfuoco) November 1, 2022 veered off the road and fell from an overpass on the A18 motorway He was nonetheless taken to hospital for observation Video footage shot by the fire brigade in Catania shows the HGV and its trailer being uprighted as part of the clean-up operation the trailer fell apart and the damage to the lorry also became clear Pölös Zsófia Journalist Trans.info | 6.05.2025 Fragrance on the Fly: Why Pocket Perfumes Are Perfect for Airplane TravelSponsored Article 6.05.2025 the strong tremor which hit the region close to the active Mt Etna volcano in Sicily has left 28 people injured and 600 people without a roof over their head The tremor which registered 4.8 on the Richter scale causing a lot of damage to the infrastructure in the regions of Zaffarena A light magnitude 1.2 earthquake hit 14.1 km (9 mi) away from Acireale, Sicily, Italy The quake had a very shallow depth of 6.5 km (4 mi) and was too small to be felt by people A light magnitude 0.8 earthquake hit 35 km (21 mi) away from Catania, Sicily, Italy The quake had a very shallow depth of 0.6 km (0.4 mi) and was too small to be felt by people A light magnitude 0.7 earthquake hit 28 km (17 mi) away from Catania, Sicily, Italy The quake had a very shallow depth of 2.8 km (1.7 mi) and was too small to be felt by people A light magnitude 0.9 earthquake hit 35 km (22 mi) away from Catania, Sicily, Italy The quake had a very shallow depth of 0.5 km (0.3 mi) and was too small to be felt by people A light magnitude 0.6 earthquake hit 34 km (21 mi) away from Catania, Sicily, Italy The quake had a very shallow depth of 0.4 km (0.2 mi) and was too small to be felt by people A light magnitude 1.3 earthquake hit 43 km (26 mi) away from Catania, Sicily, Italy The quake had a very shallow depth of 13.9 km (9 mi) and was too small to be felt by people A light magnitude 0.7 earthquake hit 7.3 km (4.5 mi) away from Giarre, Sicily, Italy The quake had a very shallow depth of 3.7 km (2.3 mi) and was too small to be felt by people A light magnitude 1.0 earthquake hit 11.4 km (7 mi) away from Biancavilla, Sicily, Italy The quake had a very shallow depth of 5.2 km (3.2 mi) and was too small to be felt by people A light magnitude 1.4 earthquake hit 27 km (17 mi) away from Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto, Sicily, Italy The quake had a very shallow depth of 4.1 km (2.5 mi) and was too small to be felt by people A light magnitude 1.7 earthquake hit 14.4 km (9 mi) away from Giarre, Sicily, Italy The quake had a very shallow depth of 0.9 km (0.6 mi) and was too small to be felt by people A light magnitude 2.1 earthquake hit 9.6 km (6 mi) away from Acireale, Sicily, Italy The quake had a very shallow depth of 2.1 km (1.3 mi) and was reported felt by some people near the epicenter A light magnitude 0.7 earthquake hit 30 km (18 mi) away from Catania, Sicily, Italy The quake had a very shallow depth of 3.2 km (2 mi) and was too small to be felt by people A light magnitude 2.0 earthquake hit 11.5 km (7 mi) away from Adrano, Sicily, Italy The quake had a very shallow depth of 4.2 km (2.6 mi) and was not felt (or at least not reported so) A light magnitude 1.1 earthquake hit 25 km (16 mi) away from Catania, Sicily, Italy The quake had a very shallow depth of 13.8 km (9 mi) and was too small to be felt by people An earthquake of magnitude 4.8 was recorded at 3:26 in Sicily and was felt along the entire Ionian coast of the island A sudden shock in the middle of the night has brought attention back to the seismic risk in Sicilia and a earthquake of magnitude 4.8 shook the island in the early hours of the morning waking up thousands of people along the Ionian coast and fueling fears among the population The first official responses from local administrations are starting to arrive with caution The mayor of Aci Sant'Antonio, Quintino Rocca, has communicated the suspension of teaching activities for today, in order to allow thorough checks on school buildings and to ascertain the possible presence of damage structural adopted to ensure the safety of students and school staff after last night's earthquake It is possible that in the next few minutes other municipal administrations will also release similar communications Un earthquake of magnitude 4.8 was recorded at 3:26 this morning in the southern sector of the Ionian Sea The shock was clearly felt by the population in the provinces of Catania According to data from the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology the hypocenter of the earthquake was located at 48 kilometers below the Earth's surface The epicenter of the earthquake was located approximately 50 kilometers below the off the southern coast of Calabria located 72 kilometers southeast of the epicenter They would not have been recorded damage or injuries but the shock caused great fear among the population worried by the violence of the seismic movement The fire department's telephone lines were clogged with calls from anxious people many of whom were asking for information or reporting fears Given the relatively low intensity of the earthquake recorded last night no warning was issued no tsunami warning for the affected coastal areas which constantly monitors seismic movements at sea activates alert procedures only in the presence of events with a magnitude equal to or greater than 5.5 a threshold well above the 4.8 detected in the Ionian Sea Notizie.it is a newspaper registered with the Court of Milan n.68 on 01/03/2018 Impara come descrivere lo scopo dell'immagine (si apre in una nuova scheda) Lascia vuoto se l'immagine è puramente decorativa