That doesn't mean that in one of Italy's most seismic areas there won't be a strong earthquake.
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) A strong earthquake jolted Taiwan on Sunday, killing two people and injuring at least 21 others and causing panicked shoppers to rush out of a shaking multi-story department store, officials said.
Strong earthquake shakes Chile.
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By combining different techniques this church stood strong in the earthquake of Intensity 7.
The churches have survived several earthquakes and wars, and are known as "Earthquake Baroque" due to their strong quake-resistant structures.
The company also confronted supply-chain disruptions after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, and a persistently strong yen that undercut profit.
Alessandro Amato of the INGV said the latest tremor "came out of nowhere", and described it as a classic earthquake for the area - "medium-strong" and "fairly shallow".
Earlier, the International Monetary Fund said it believed Japan's economy was strong enough to afford the cost of rebuilding the damage from the earthquake and tsunami.
Chile endured two more strong aftershocks Friday -- the first a 6.0-magnitude earthquake and the other 6.6.
More than 1, 500 people were killed again in 1997 when an earthquake struck the Ghaen region, while in Golbaf, a strong quake which had caused 1, 500 deaths in 1981 caused just five in 1991.
The night after the blackout, there was indeed an earthquake, of 6.8 on the Richter scale strong enough to cut the power supply and once again to plunge large areas of the northern Philippines into darkness.
Holding back an enormous reservoir, the dam was built in the face of strong opposition from critics who gave warning, among other things, that it would be vulnerable to earthquake damage that might cause disastrous floods.
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