Originally Posted by
Perche
In 2009 in Aquila (Italian word for eagle) of similar magnitude, 6.2, left a similar amount dead, and a similar amount displaced. Aquila is famous for Francis of Assisi.
A bit OT, but was that an editing mistake? Or is there really some connection between St. Francis and L'Aquila? Assisi had its own bad earthquake of course, about ten or twelve years before the one in L'Aquila.