The mayor of Scandale, Antonio Barberiohas ordered, as a precaution, the closure of schools of all agenda and grade for tomorrow, “in order to carry out technical inspections to verify any damage caused by the current seismic swarm”. Starting from 13:40 today, he is noted in a note, “one has recorded one Seismic swarm in the province of Crotonein Calabria, with at least 10 earthquake shocks of magnitude greater than 2.0. The most intense event, which occurred at 2:11 pm, reached a magnitude of 3.7, as confirmed by the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (Ingv).
The epicenter of the earthquake was located mainly between the municipalities of Scandale and Cutroat a varying depth between 20 and 30 km. Fortunately, – it is written – there were no significant damage to things or people, but the attention has remained high throughout the area “. The mayor Barberio explained: «We deemed it necessary to adopt this precautionary measure for GArantr the safety of students, teachers and all school staff. The municipal technicians, together with the competent bodies, will carry out checks on school buildings to ascertain any damage and guarantee the return to school activities in total safety “. Considering that the seismic swarm has affected the entire territory of the Marquisate from Crotone, already characterized by other events of magnitude greater than 3, the Municipality, it is still detected, has adopted urgent prevention measures “to protect the safety of the school population” .