Nine Years Since the Earthquake, A Wound That Will Never Heal

Nine years ago, our land began to tremble, striking a profound blow to our communities. Today, our thoughts, with deep emotion, are with the people who lost their lives and their families. It is a deep wound that we will never be able to heal. In these years, we have worked tirelessly to restore a sense of normality and a future to our hard-hit interior regions,” wrote Marche Region President Francesco Acquaroli on social media to mark the ninth anniversary of the 2016 earthquake that devastated Central Italy. The seismic event particularly affected the regions of Marche, Lazio, Abruzzo, and Umbria, directly causing 299 fatalities (with 4 indirect deaths), 388 injuries, and displacing 41,000 people.