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The local government of L’Aquila headed by Mayor Massimo Cialente requested for assistance from the Department of Civil Protection of the Italian government in a telegram 5 days before the devastating April 6 earthquake that caused the death of 295 people. The telegram contained the report on the continuing earth tremors in the city months before [...]

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said that there have been 806 significant earthquakes in central Italy in the most recent days, not giving seismic respite to the country that still mourns the death of 289 victims of the April 6 Monday earthquake that measured 6.3 magnitude on the Richter scale. Berlusconi attended the Friday mass funeral in [...]