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Father Dino Bravieri, director of the "Ximenian Sismic Observatory" in Florence, shows the sismogaphic record of the second devastating jolt of the earthquake which struck central Italy, early Friday September 26, 1997. Official figures of casualties and damages, count 9 dead, thirty injured and more than 2,500 homeless. The earthquake seriously damaged St. Francis Basilica in Assisi, as well as several other historic landmarks in the central Italian regions of Marche and Abruzzo. (AP Photo/Francesco Bellini)