{Excerpts} On March 10, 2026, at 12:03 AM Italian time, a magnitude 5.9 earthquake occurred off the coast of Campania . The seismic event occurred at an extremely deep depth , approximately 414 km , well below the common seismogenic depths of Italian earthquakes, which predominantly occur in the upper crust. This deep event, quite rare for this geographical area , can be traced back to a geological process typical of the southern Tyrrhenian Sea due to the presence in the Earth's mantle of a " slab " of oceanic lithosphere that has been sinking for several million years beneath the Tyrrhenian Sea. This phenomenon is accompanied by frequent seismicity along the Calabrian and Sicilian coasts – less frequent off the Campanian coast – , with earthquakes that in the last 40 years have reached magnitude ML 5.8 on 28 October 2016 , at a depth of 481 km , and magnitude Mw 5.8 on 29 October 2006, at a depth of 2...
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