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Frazione in Emilia-Romagna, Italy
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
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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
.
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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
.
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