A magnitude 4.7 earthquake struck the Campi Flegrei area near the southern Italian city of Naples on Friday, ​causing power outages, disrupting train and metro services and damaging ‌some buildings, authorities said.

The quake, recorded at 7:46 p.m. (1746 GMT), had its epicentre in the Campi Flegrei area to the west of Naples at a ​depth of about 3 km (2 miles), Italy's National Institute of ​Geophysics and Volcanology said.

A magnitude 4.7 earthquake struck the Campi Flegrei area near the southern Italian city of Naples on Friday, ​causing power outages, disrupting train and metro services and damaging ‌some buildings, authorities said.

The quake, recorded at 7:46 p.m. (1746 GMT), had its epicentre in the Campi Flegrei area to the west of Naples at a ​depth of about 3 km (2 miles), Italy's National Institute of ​Geophysics and Volcanology said.

Although small earthquakes are common in the area, stronger tremors have heightened fears ​of a repeat ​of the seismic ⁠crisis that struck Campi Flegrei in the early 1980s, causing widespread disruption and forcing thousands of people ​to leave their homes.

Earthquakes are relatively frequent in ​Italy.

A series ⁠of powerful quakes struck central Italy in 2016, devastating parts of Lazio, Umbria and the Marche regions, killing around 300 people.

The deadliest in ⁠recent ​decades was a magnitude 6.9 quake that ​struck the Irpinia area of southern Italy in November 1980, killing about 2,700 people ​and devastating hundreds of towns.

Source: reuters.com