On Wednesday August 24th at 3:36 a.m. a magnitude 6.2 quake struck and was felt across a broad swath of central Italy. Amatrice and Accumoli, 60 miles northeast of Rome, and Pescara del Tronto, about 15 miles further east, were by far the hardest-hit, completely destroyed and leaving a provisional tally of 290 dead, many of them children and has also left ghost towns. More than 1,200 inhabitants had to leave what was left of their homes and find refuge in tents. Children are