Renzi in Camerino to visit quake zone

(ANSA) - Camerino, October 27 - Premier Matteo Renzi Thursday arrived in the Marche town of Camerino Thursday on a visit to communities that were struck by an earthquake last night. He cancelled all other engagements after two tremors both registering above 5 on the Richter scale struck shortly after 19:00 and again just after 21:00 on Wednesday evening, leaving between two and three thousand people homeless. The first 5.4 magnitude quake struck at 19:10 Italian time and was followed by an even bigger one, of magnitude 5.9, at 21:18. But there were at least 200 aftershocks too, the National Institute of Geophysics (INGV) said Thursday. The quake was felt across the central Marche region, including around the cities of Ascoli, Ancona, Fabriano and Pesaro. It was also felt in the cities of Arezzo, Assisi, L'Aquila, Pescara, Perugia, Rieti and Rome, spanning the Lazio, Tuscany and Umbria regions.