Sant'Agostino was a comune (municipality) in the Province of Ferrara in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about 35 kilometres (22 mi) north of Bologna and about 20 kilometres (12 mi) west of Ferrara. From 1 January 2017 the comune was unified with Mirabello and the new municipality took the name of Terre del Reno.
Earthquake victims
Two workers died in a Sant'Agostino ceramics factory when the building collapsed during an earthquake which hit the region in the early morning of May 20, 2012.[2]
The following day the affected region, which extended to Lombardy and Veneto, experienced a succession of aftershocks, the strongest of which took place in the early afternoon and was itself rated at 5.1 on the Richter scale.
References
- ^ Data from Istat
- ^ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18135898 BBC News report of earthquake damage
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