Pescina (pronounced [peʃˈʃiːna]) is a township and comune in the province of L'Aquila, Abruzzo, central Italy.

Rescuers left on the evening of the 13th, arriving only the day after because landslides and debris caused the roads to be impassable.

[citation needed] The seismic event brought to light the lack of preparedness of the Italian state.

Eminio Sipari, member of Parliament for the electoral district of Pescina, protested that many victims would have been saved if proper precautions were in place.

The continuation of World War I, which had begun in the autumn of 1914, brought troops to the region and secured permanent forces in the affected area.

People with no geological competence developed theories to explain the earthquake, blaming human activities in the area.

The families of Galli and Villanucci, which have had a presence in Pescina since at least 1880, have members in at least two American cities: Portland, Maine and Providence, Rhode Island.

His fame was such that the writer Alexandre Dumas included him as a character in his novels The Viscount Brangelonne and Twenty Years After, which deal with the Three Musketeers.