An earthquake killed at least 15 people in northern Italy on Tuesday, damaging buildings and spreading panic among thousands of residents still living in tents after a tremor in the same region destroyed their homes just over a week ago.
Officials said several people were trapped under the rubble of houses and warehouses in the Emilia-Romagna region, where several building sites and workshops had just reopened after the previous quake on May 20.
Civil protection officials said 15 people were confirmed dead. Seven people were killed in the May 20 quake that, like Tuesday’s, had its epicenter not far from the city of Modena.
Italian television showed buildings shaking and collapsing, ambulances racing across towns and rescue workers battling to remove rubble.
READ MORE: 15 dead as second big quake strikes Italy
Venezia (by elaineflynn)
I want to go to here.
Al fresco dining at Hotel Caesar Augustus, Capri Island | Italy (by Hotel Caesar Augustus | via visitheworld)
Fruit shop in Rome, Italy (by Atilla2008)
Villa Palagonia, Palermo | Sicily (by JJKDC)
Gardone Riviera, Brescia, Italy (by Robert Schüller)
Initial testing of the stains is believed to be a sign of poisoning or hypoxia — lack of oxygen that is a sign of altitude sickness. Hypoxia is known to cause confusion and illness in animals. Experts said full test results may not be available for at least a week.
Thousands of dead turtle doves littered roofs and cars in the Italian town of Faenza in what has become part of a mass animal death epidemic that is spanning the globe. Residents of the town described the birds falling to the ground like ‘little Christmas balls’ with strange blue stains on their beaks.
“We have no idea why this happened all of a sudden. The doves just started falling one-by-one then in groups of 10s and 20s,” one witness told Examiner.com.
8,000 turtle doves fall dead in Italy with strange blue stains on their beaks
See also: The week in dead animals
Google is helpfully mapping the recent reports of animal deaths around the world. Are there reasonable, scientific reasons for all of this? Sure, probably. But that won’t stop us from speculating on a possible link to May 21, 2011 or to ETs. Isn’t that what the Internets are for? : )
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Brazil
Mysterious killing of fish in coastalCanada
Update 1 – 10,000s of Birds found dead in Manitoba
Update 1 – Dead Birds and Fish reported in St. Clair River, Ontario
Update 1 – Goldstream River, at Goldstream Provincial Park, Victoria mysteriously turns bright greenChile
Thousands of Birds fall from the sky in South AmericaChina
Eagles and Birds are falling from the sky in ChinaItaly
Thousands of Doves are DyingJapan
Japan on alert after finding dead birdsNew Zealand
Hundreds of snapper dead on beachesSouth Korea
Dead Teal Ducks With Bird Flu Strain Found In South KoreaSouth Africa
Mystery of dead birds on Cape roadsSweden
50 birds were found dead
Hundreds of dead birds found in the middle of the road in SwedenUnited Kingdom
Dead fish discovered in canal marina near Abergavenny
Update 1 – 40,000 ‘devil’ crabs found dead on the beachUnited States of America
Arkansas
Nearly 3000 Dead Birds Fall From Arkansas Sky
First Birds Fall, Now 100000 Fish Dead in ArkansasFlorida
Thousands Of Fish Dead In Spruce CreekIllinois
Dead Birds Reported by Residents in Southern IllinoisKentucky
Update 1 – Dead birds found in Kentucky, Sweden, as crabs wash up on U.K. shores in latest mass animal deathsLouisiana
Dead Birds Fall From Sky AGAIN In Louisiana, 300 Miles From Arkansas Incident Days EarlierMaryland
2 Million fish die in Chesapeake Bay, MarylandMichigan
Update 1 – Hundreds of Dead Fish Appear In Lincoln ParkNorth Carolina
Dead pelican count escalates in Topsail Beach
Update 1: Reward offered for information on what’s causing dead pelicans at Topsail BeachTexas
Update 1 – Now East Texas also reports hundreds of dead birds
Update 1 – Experts in Texas are weighing in after large amounts of dead birds were reportedly found across the Country and around the World
