Marsica

Marsica is a geographical and historical region in Abruzzo, central Italy, including 37 comuni in the province of L'Aquila.

Other important centers were Antinum, Lucus Angitiae and, in Aequi's territory, on the border with the Marsi, Alba Fucens and Carsioli.

With the territorial reorganization of Italy operated with the birth of the Empire, the Marsi were included within the Samnium.

[6] After the fall of the Roman Empire, the territory was, like the rest of the Italian peninsula, part of the Ostrogothic kingdom and then conquered by the Byzantines.

The high number of casualties was caused by no building codes being in force with the weak houses capsizing as well as the very unusual length of the shaking and it happening in the early morning.