By msnbc.com staff and news services
At 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck just north of Bologna, Italy, on Sunday, causing at least three deaths and collapsing historic structures.?
The quake was centered 22 miles north-northwest of Bologna in northern Italy at a relatively shallow depth of 6.3 miles, according to the U.S. Geological Survey website.?It struck at about 4 a.m. local time and was followed about an hour later by one of 5.1 magnitude, according to the USGS.?A 4.2 quake had occurred a few hours earlier.
One person working a night shift died in the collapse of a factory and two others were killed in the collapse of another building, Reuters repoerted. Rescue officials were checking reports that other people were buried under rubble. The Italian-language website repubblica.it reported that a historic bell tower had collapsed in Ferrara province.
"There's been a bit of damage. Some structures have come down with people in them," a person at the Ferrara firefighter headquarters told Reuters over the phone.
First television pictures taken after dawn showed serious damage to historic buildings and rural structures. Parts of a historic fortress in one town collapsed.
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Thousands of people in the area rushed into the streets after the quake, felt in the cities of Bologna, Modena, Ferrara, Rovigo, Verona and Mantua.
Repubblica.it said the quake was felt in Italy's financial capital,?Milan, and elsewhere in the Lombardy region and in the regions of Tuscany, Veneto, Alto Adige and Friuli-Venezia Giulia.
The last major earthquake to hit Italy was a 6.3-magnitude quake in the central Italian city of L'Aquila in 2009, killing nearly 300 people.
In January, a 5.3-magnitude quake in northern Italy was felt in Genoa, Bologna, Turin and Milan.
This article includes reporting by msbnc.com staff and Reuters.
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