Earthquake hits Naples ‘like a bomb’, with people fleeing into the streets as city is rocked by its most powerful tremors in 40 years

One of the most powerful earthquakes to hit Naples for decades shook the Italian city and the surrounding area ‘like a bomb’ and sent people running to the streets.

Local residents, a ‘roar’ heard and 4.6 magnitude earthquake at 9.15 hours when the ‘strong tremor’ felt.

The central base of the earthquake was on the banks of the extremely active Flegraan fields, a volcanic Caldera in the west of the city.

Seaside town Bagnoli’de more than one people living in the nearby, when the earthquake hit ‘a bomb look’ he said.

It measured the same size as an earthquake recorded in the region on March 13, the most powerful to hit the region in 40 years.

A woman living in the Vomero region of the city told La Repubblica.

Another local living in the suburban of the Western fuorrot described the experience as ‘terrible’.

It was temporarily suspended in the city, which hosts more than 900,000 people.

Tremors are part of a seismic herd, observers detect a dozen just before 9 o’clock this morning.

Vesuvius Observatory recorded a series of small earthquakes in a night, each of which is larger than greatness-1.

Recently, the most severe earthquake that will hit the southern Italian city – November 1980, a 6.9 magnitude earthquake – 2,734 life claimed.

The destructive earthquake wounded more than 8,800 people and threw waste to more than 300 municipalities.