NORTH Epicenter was about 3 miles away. Accumoli Pescara del Tronto Accumoli and Pescara are about 4 miles apart. Arquata del Tronto Amatrice NORTH Epicenter was about 3 miles away. Accumoli Pescara del Tronto Arquata del Tronto These towns are about 4 miles apart. Amatrice NORTH Epicenter was about 3 miles away. Accumoli Pescara del Tronto Accumoli and Pescara are about 4 miles apart. Amatrice Arquata del Tronto Image from NASA/USGS Landsat 8 satellite.

Amatrice

The mayor of Amatrice, Sergio Pirozzi, said that “half the town no longer exists.”

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Mr. Pirozzi added that rescue teams were digging through the rubble, “hoping that most people were alive.” The historic center of the town, with buildings dating to the Middle Ages, was destroyed.

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Pescara del Tronto

The village of Pescara del Tronto was all but destroyed.

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“When I arrived at the break of day, I saw a destroyed village, screams, death,” Bishop Giovanni D’Ercole of Ascoli Piceno, who visited the village, told Vatican Radio. He said he had blessed “the bodies of two children buried under the rubble.”

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Arquata del Tronto

At least 20 people were killed in the region of Marche, which includes Pescara del Tronto and Arquata del Tronto.

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Accumoli

Photos showed firefighters pulling injured people out of debris in the town of Accumoli, where houses were extensively damaged.