--- title: Italy Earthquake: Shock and Silence in Rubble of Amatrice description: Giuseppe Carotenuto spent a day during the rescue operations in Amatrice, the hardest-hit town after the magnitude-6.2 earthquake canonical: https://time.com/4466063/giuseppe-carotenuto-amatrice-italy-quake/ author: Andrew Katz article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-25T20:17:42.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:39:43.693Z article:section: World og:title: Shock and Silence in the Rubble of Amatrice og:description: On the ground in the hardest-hit town after this week's earthquake in Italy og:url: https://time.com/4466063/giuseppe-carotenuto-amatrice-italy-quake/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcfb5f75a86bf3480/6988a3b1524fc09b68df9475/italy-earthquake-giuseppe-carotenuto-1725.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Italy-Earthquake-Giuseppe -Carotenuto-1725 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Shock and Silence in the Rubble of Amatrice twitter:description: On the ground in the hardest-hit town after this week's earthquake in Italy twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcfb5f75a86bf3480/6988a3b1524fc09b68df9475/italy-earthquake-giuseppe-carotenuto-1725.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Shock and Silence in the Rubble of Amatrice > Sponsored content. 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Rescue teams carry a man to safety after a 6.2 earthquake hit the town of Amatrice, in the Lazio region of Italy, on Aug. 24, 2016.Giuseppe Carotenuto  by [Andrew Katz](https://time.com/author/andrew-katz/)  ## Andrew Katz Aug 25, 2016 8:17 PM UTC Giuseppe Carotenuto was in Rome early Wednesday when a magnitude-6.2 earthquake shook the ground in central Italy. The photojournalist already had a go-bag ready: boots for climbing over rubble, a helmet for safety and a keffiyeh to cover his mouth from the dust. He left Rome at 4:30 a.m. and headed for the picturesque small town famous for a pasta dish. He arrived close to 6:30, following updates on the radio along the way. He expected the town, and its centuries-old homes and buildings that likely had not been reinforced, to be completely destroyed. “It is what I found,” he tells TIME. The earthquake has left at least 250 people dead in the region. Amatrice, where he had visited three years ago for an assignment, is the hardest-hit towns with at least 193 fatalities as of Thursday afternoon. The toll is expected to rise as search-and-rescue operations continue. Carotenuto, from Pompeii, has covered everything from Europe’s refugee crisis and Italy’s army in Afghanistan to the conflict in Libya and 2009 earthquake in L’Aquila that left more than 300 people dead. “There is one thing in common in all: the death,” he says. “The death as a result of errors caused by humans.” He began to shoot shortly afterward and worked through the day. Beautiful homes and buildings crumbled onto streets that were no longer recognizable. There were residents looking through the rubble, first-responders hunting for survivors and many people who could not comprehend the scale of the tragedy. “The survivors I met in the streets of Amatrice \[were\] shocked. Some did not understand what had happened and why they suddenly found themselves in the street,” he says. “The silence was broken by the screams of the first rescuers, the phones ringing in the rubble, the smell of cement dust.” One man who Carotenuto met was seated alone on the rubble of his home. He came back following several aftershocks to see what remained, and stayed there for about 10 minutes in silence. “This man didn’t have words.” [**_Giuseppe Carotenuto_**](http://www.giuseppecarotenuto.com/) _is a photographer based in Rome. Follow him on Instagram_ [_@guiseppe\_carotenuto_](https://www.instagram.com/giuseppe%5Fcarotenuto/)_._ **_Michelle Molloy_**_, who edited this photo essay, is a senior international photo editor at TIME._ **_Andrew Katz_** _is TIME’s International Multimedia Editor. Follow him on Twitter_ [_@katz_](https://twitter.com/katz)_._  Rescue teams carry a man to safety after a 6.2 earthquake hit the town of Amatrice, in the Lazio region of Italy, on Aug. 24, 2016. Giuseppe Carotenuto  Rescue teams look for survivors in Amatrice, Italy, on Aug. 24, 2016. Giuseppe Carotenuto  Authorities look for survivors in the rubble of the town of Amatrice, Italy, on Aug. 24, 2016. Giuseppe Carotenuto  A rescuer stands beside the body of a man pulled from the rubble in the town of Amatrice, Italy, on Aug. 24, 2016. Giuseppe Carotenuto  Women in the street after a 6.2 earthquake hit the town of Amatrice, in the Lazio region of Italy, on Aug. 24, 2016. Giuseppe Carotenuto  A woman is rescued from the rubble after the earthquake in Amatrice, Italy, on Aug. 24, 2016. Giuseppe Carotenuto  An injured man on a wheelchair outside the hospital in Amatrice, Italy, on Aug. 24, 2016. Giuseppe Carotenuto  A body extracted from the rubble is carried on a stretcher in Amatrice, Italy, on Aug. 24, 2016. Giuseppe Carotenuto  Rescue teams attempt to move the rubble in search of survivors after a 6.2 earthquake hit the town of Amatrice, Italy, on Aug. 24, 2016. Giuseppe Carotenuto  A man searches for survivors in a house destroyed by the earthquake in Amatrice, Italy, on Aug. 24, 2016. Giuseppe Carotenuto  Rescue teams carry a woman to safety in Amatrice, Italy, on Aug. 24, 2016. Giuseppe Carotenuto  Rescue teams look for survivors in Amatrice, Italy, on Aug. 24, 2016. Giuseppe Carotenuto  Rescue teams search through the rubble of Amatrice, Italy, on Aug. 24, 2016. Giuseppe Carotenuto  Rescue teams carry a man across the rubble of Amatrice, Italy, on Aug. 24, 2016. Giuseppe Carotenuto  A car destroyed by the collapse of a house in Amatrice, Italy, on Aug. 24, 2016. Giuseppe Carotenuto  A man sits on the rubble in front of his house that was completely destroyed by the earthquake in Amatrice, Italy, on Aug. 24, 2016. 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