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Italy: 36 On 4 October, the region of Calabria was struck by floods. A woman and her two children died when their car crashed. A bridge collapsed and roads were also damaged. [2] Later, on 10 October, in the city of Cagliari, Sardinia a woman died when her car was swept away. Her husband and their three children were rescued alive.
The wealth of the crime families is well hidden, and the municipality is officially the one with the lowest per capita income in Italy. [10] In a large scale operation in the night of 13 November 2003, thousands of carabinieri stormed the town, discovering hidden underground rooms and hallways and arresting 131 people.
[6] [12] [13] Messina has been surrounded by mud and standing rainwater. [7] Parts of Sicily were inaccessible for days. [14] The Italian government declared a state of emergency to mobilize emergency rescue and recovery forces. [7] [9] [13] [14] [15] It was the worst landslide disaster in Italy since 1998 during which 137 people died in Sarno ...
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>$1.25 billion (2011 USD) [1] [2] The 2011 floods in Europe, were caused by a series of storms in the fall, including Cyclone Meeno [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and Tropical Storm Rolf . [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 1 ] The floods occurred in late October–early November in Spain, France, Italy, and Ireland.
Roghudi (Calabrian Greek: Ροχούδι, romanized: Richùdi, or Rigùdi) is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria in the Italian region Calabria, located about 130 kilometres (81 mi) southwest of Catanzaro and about 20 kilometres (12 mi) southeast of Reggio Calabria.
Rosarno is a hotbed of the 'Ndrangheta, a Mafia-type criminal organisation based in Calabria. The local 'Ndrangheta dominates the fruit and vegetable businesses in the area, according to Francesco Forgione, a former head of Italy's parliamentary Antimafia Commission. [15]
The most serious was the earthquake of 28 March 1638, which razed the town to the ground which was subsequently rebuilt. The 1783 Southern Calabria Earthquake and the 1905 Calabria Earthquake were also really serious events and finally in 1905 event, soil fracturing and water leakage (or liquefaction) from the soil were reported.