Tremor Hits 2 Villages in Italy
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L'AQUILA, Italy — A sharp tremor hit two mountain villages in central Italy Friday, causing some damage to old buildings but no casualties, police reported.
The tremor, registering 3.6 on the Richter scale, shook the villages of Alfedena and Villetta Barrea, in the Abruzzi Mountains, about 90 miles southeast of Rome this morning.
The area is prone to earthquakes, and several houses in the villages were damaged in a sharp series of tremors in May, 1984. Some of these houses, uninhabited since the quake, suffered further crumbling Friday, police said.
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