Sant'Agostino, Emilia?Romagna

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Sant'Agostino
Sant'Agostino is located in Italy
Sant'Agostino
Sant'Agostino
Location of Sant'Agostino in Italy
Coordinates: 44°48′N 11°23′E  /  44.800°N 11.383°E  / 44.800; 11.383
Country   Italy
Region Emilia-Romagna
Province Ferrara (FE)
Comune Terre del Reno
Area
 ? Total 35.2 km 2 (13.6 sq mi)
Elevation
15 m (49 ft)
Population
  (31 December 2010 [1] )
 ? Total 7,106
 ? Density 200/km 2 (520/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+1 ( CET )
 ? Summer ( DST ) UTC+2 ( CEST )
Postal code
44047
Dialing code 0532

Sant'Agostino was a comune (municipality) in the Province of Ferrara in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna , located about 35 kilometres (22 mi) north of Bologna and about 20 kilometres (12 mi) west of Ferrara . From 1 January 2017 the comune was unified with Mirabello and the new municipality took the name of Terre del Reno .

Earthquake victims [ edit ]

Two workers died in a Sant'Agostino ceramics factory when the building collapsed during an earthquake which hit the region in the early morning of May 20, 2012 . [2]

The following day the affected region, which extended to Lombardy and Veneto , experienced a succession of aftershocks, the strongest of which took place in the early afternoon and was itself rated at 5.1 on the Richter scale .

References [ edit ]

  1. ^ Data from Istat
  2. ^ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18135898 BBC News report of earthquake damage