Is there a pattern for the earthquakes in Italy?

World News Rudolph Rodriquez
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The earthquakes that hit central Italy in the last two months could continue and could have a destructive domino effect with a seismic high which may give rise to others of lower magnitude, along with the Apennines, a seismologist warned.

Saturday morning’s quake was the largest recorded since 1980 until the present but has not caused so much damage and casualties like the one in August did.

Gianluca Valensise, a seismologist at the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology of Italy, said that there is a geodynamic link between the earthquake in August  and all of those that followed it.

The Apennine Mountains in Italy are stretching from the Liguria region in the north-east to the south of Sicily and are dominated by a number of irregularities in the Earth’s crust, each having a length of about 10-20 kilometers long.

‘An earthquake that reaches 6 degrees on the Richter scale creates replicas that are redistributed along the adjacent uneven and thus creates a fracture, and perhaps this phenomenon occurs since August,’ added Valensise.

Moreover, he also said that Italy has seen a resemblance to the tragic earthquake that took place in Calabria on the southern tip of Italy, in 1783, when there were five big earthquakes that measured 6.5 on the Richter scale and even more in less than 2 months.

More recently, in 1997, three earthquakes occurred around the town of Assisi in central Italy, the first measuring 6.4 degrees, killing 11 people, the second took place the next day and the third after only 20 days.