The Times reports: New York Italian-Americans move to aid quakes victims: “There are few forces that so swiftly and surely reaffirm such immigrant ties as a natural disaster, and Monday’s 6.3 magnitude earthquake, which killed as many as 150 and left tens of thousands homeless, was no different.

MORE: ABC News offers a sad timeline of Italy’s earthquakes, the worst of which struck Reggio Calabria and Messina, Sicily on Dec. 28, 1908. The video here, at this Euronews site, is sad and shocking.

Tags: aid to earthquake victims, earthquake, Earthquake in Abruzzo, fault lines in Italy, history of earthquakes in italy, Italian-Americans, New York

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