A State of emergency has been announced in Italy"s central regions . At least 268 people are now known to have died and 400 were injured. Thousands of families remain homeless. The government has allocated 50 million euros to rebuild the ruined cities.

Early in the morning of the earthquake has repeated in the disaster zone. The magnitude reached 4.7. Up to 100 aftershocks have been detected over the past 36 hours in the central Italian regions .