A series of major earthquakes struck Central Italy between the Marche and Umbria regions in October 2016.

[9] A magnitude 6.1 intraplate earthquake struck 3 km (2 mi) west of Visso on 26 October at 21:18 local time (19:18 UTC).

According to official data, a man died because he had suffered a heart attack as a result of the quake.

[11] A third large, shallow earthquake of USGS preliminary magnitude 6.6 struck 6 km (4 mi) north of Norcia at 07:40 local time (06:40 UTC) on 30 October.

[16] The quakes occurred in a seismic gap which is located between the areas hit by the 2016 August earthquake and the one in Umbria and Marche of 1997.