Italy hit by another deadly earthquake
May 29, 2012
(CBS/AP) MILAN - A magnitude 5.8 earthquake rattled northern Italy on Tuesday, leaving at least ten people dead, according to local Italian media and officials.
The United States Geological Survey said the quake, which struck at 9:00 a.m. local time (0300 Eastern) Tuesday, was centered 25 miles northwest of the central city of Bologna.
It hit the same region where a stronger temblor measuring 6.0 earlier this month killed seven people.
CBS News' Costanza Barone reports that, according to local media, as many as 7,000 people were displaced as the result of the quakes in northern Italy. The exact death toll could not immediately be confirmed, but local emergency responders told Italian television networks that at least ten people were dead, and many more missing amid the rubble.
Italian media also said a tower in San Felice sul Panaro had collapsed.
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