There is an earthquake. But a war device just exploded

Moments of panic on the eastern side of the Sicily and on the southern one of the Calabria, where around noon today, Tuesday 29 October, a roar shook the cities of Messina is Reggio Calabria, making the windows of many homes shake. Many worried citizens who immediately poured into the street thinking of a earthquake. Many reports appeared on social networks of frightened users and looking for information. "I just heard a strong earthquake, preceded by aincredible explosion", reads Twitter. But soon after the alarm has returned: in reality, according to what reported by the competent authorities, it has only been about blasting operations of a war device located at sea, off the Strait, by the SDAI nucleus of Augusta of the Navy. The bombs had been found by the bomb in the port of the Sicilian town, at the height of the via Don Blasco, and in the body of water in front of the sailing section of the military base of the Navy.

The deflagration operation was planned with a special Ordinance issued by the Maritime Strait Authority, but apparently not even the schools they were aware of it, to the point that in Reggio some institutes were evacuated as soon as there was the roar followed by the movement of the ground, also detected by all the seismographs in the area that reported a small earthquake of magnitude 2.0. Fortunately, however, it was a false alarm.