Three earthquakes have hit central Italy in the space of an hour this morning.
The strongest had a magnitude of 5-point-7.
They were centred around 95 kilometres north-east of Rome, with tremors felt in the capital.
The Metro system in the City has now been closed.
The mountainous region was shaken by three quakes last year, killing nearly 300 people and damaging a number of older buildings.
Beat's Kolyn Byrne from Waterford is in Rome:
"We were on the Metro when the Earthquake happened but we didn't feel anything, we didn't see any panic.
We're just going about our day as normal tourists I guess.
We're heading towards the Coliseum now and there's no panic there's people just walking around.
So it didn't have that much impact in the city."
The first we actually heard about it was from people in Ireland asking if we were ok.
We had no indication that anything had happened.
There's been nothing strange going on in the city.
We've just been going about our business as normal.
I guess if the earthquake had been heavier and closer to Rome then there might have been a danger to some of the old buildings."
