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Earthquake rattles Italy

ROME — A 4.9-magnitude earthquake Sunday evening rocked much of southern Italy, sending frightened people into the streets of Naples and country towns.

Mayor Luigi de Magistris of Naples said there were no reports of damage in the city, the largest in Italy’s south. In Piedimonte Matese, a small town near the epicenter, Mayor Vincenzo Cappello told Sky TG24 there were no injuries and no major structural damage, although some buildings may have had minor damage.

Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology said the quake at 6:08 p.m. had a magnitude of 4.9 and struck some 6.5 miles underground. Its epicenter was roughly 35 miles northeast of Naples. The Italian news agency LaPresse said the earth shook as far away as Puglia, in the southeastern heel of the boot-shaped peninsula.

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