The Italians go wild and scream and run out into the streets. They are very dramatic people. Anyway, they had to close one of the stairwells at the hospital after that quake Tuesday morning and the elevators were inoperable. Quite a bit of glass was broken, too. We'll have to find the back roads into town tomorrow if it's still closed.
Rumors run wild and quickly over here.
You don't believe everything you hear the first time. Without telephones, communications are passed on by word of mouth and sometimes the stories get wilder and wilder as they go. There is an American radio station here run by the Naval Base, but they try to play things down and only casually mention significant problems such as the Tangenziale being closed due to another quake. Anyway, don't worry. There are tremors and quakes daily close to the Naval base, but we haven't felt even one of them here at our house.