Many feared dead after avalanche hits hotel

Up to 30 people are missing after a popular mountain hotel in central Italy was hit by an avalanche after a series of earthquakes

Detail

L’Aquila
Gran Sasso mountain
Farindola
Hotel Rigopiano 

Tectonic plate boundary

Jan 18: Four strong quakes. Strongest is just south of Amatrice, where 298 people died in quake in Aug 2016 

Farindola: Roof on four-storey Rigopiano Hotel partly collapses on Wednesday night, trapping at least 20 tourists and seven staff


ITALY
UMBRIA
TUSCANY
ABRUZZO
LAZIO
MARCHE
Tyrrhenian Sea
Adriatic Sea
Apennine Mts
Florence
Perugia
Norcia
Bologna
Pescara
Rome
Amatrice
L’Aquila
30km
20 miles
Source: U.S. Geological Survey
Picture: Google Earth