NATION SITTING ON A FAULT LINE

ITALY is prone to earthquakes because it is on a boundary between two tectonic plates of the Earth’s crust, which are moving in different directions.

The action over millions of years was responsible for creating the Apennine mountains and the Alps.

Siesmic activity along the fault line, which runs the length of Italy, is monitiored by scientists.

Every so often, moving rocks ‘stick’ until pressure builds up and is eventually released resulting in an earthquake.