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Italian quakeThe death toll in the Abruzzo earthquake reached 207 today after a night of frantic rescue work and a fresh tremor measuring 4.7 on the Richter scale, the Italian Prime Minister said. Helen Long reports.(01:55) Reuters Video Report Apr 6, 2009 find the most recent earthquakes on GoogleHunt for Italian quake survivors - Rescue workers are searching for countless numbers of people feared trapped under rubble following a powerful earthquake in central Italy that flattened dozens of towns and villages. L'AQUILA, Italy (CNN) -- Two days after a powerful earthquake ripped through Italy's mountainous Abruzzo region, authorities were still unsure Tuesday how many people remained trapped in the wreckage
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Officials fear the latest casualty count, provided by the mayor of L'Aquila, may not be the final one. "We still don't know the exact number," said Francesco Rocca, a spokesman for the Italian Red Cross. "This is why we are still working very, very hard at the moment." Doctors tended to an estimated 1,500 injured residents at two field hospitals, after the main hospital had been hit by the 6.3-magnitude quake. Officials urged residents to not return home as aftershocks continued. Thousands have sought shelter in tents. Others slept in cars or relatives' homes. Many survivors stood watch, gripping one another, as they watched rescuers feverishly comb through the remains of buildings that had crumbled like crackers. "I can say there's hardly a building which was left without some sign of what has happened in the historical center of L'Aquila," Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said during a visit to the region. "All the public buildings have been affected." Earthquake strikes central ItalyMore than one hundred thousand people experienced severe or strong shaking during this morning's tremors, geologists say  Shake
map of the magnitude 6.3 earthquake in central Italy. Image: USGS
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Berlusconi said 4,000 people were working on the rescue effort. Civil defense officials said they are prepared to house up to 30,000 people, but many of those displaced have gone to hotels. Monday's earthquake was about 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) deep, the U.S. Geological Survey said. About 10:20 p.m. (8:20 p.m. GMT) Sunday, a 4.6-magnitude earthquake hit northern Italy, about 55 km (35 miles) southeast of Bologna, the agency said. That earthquake's depth was 6.4 km (4 miles). The quake is the deadliest to strike Italy in decades, and the first major temblor to strike the country in almost seven years. Joshua Brothers, an American missionary, told CNN that the quake "sounded as if a 747 (jet) was actually coming in to land." "That was the first thing that was on my mind," he said. The quake left stone buildings in heaps, with rubble spilling over parked cars and into alleyways. Frightened residents rushed into the streets, many of them bringing luggage with them, Brothers said. "If you look along the way, there are many palazzi that are cracked, walls have fallen in on some of them," he said. L'Aquila's hospital was damaged as well, forcing doctors to evacuate the most seriously hurt. Agostino Miozzo, the director-general of Italy's Civil Protection agency, called it "a disaster on a huge scale."
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Tuesday morning, the death toll had risen to at least 179, as rescuers pulled
more bodies from the rubble in the medieval city of L'Aquila, about 120 km (75
miles) northeast of Rome.
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