On April 6, 2009, a magnitude 5.9 earthquake landed in the Abuzzo region of Italy. The centre of the quake was in the Abuzzo capital of L'Aquila, and other villages also received very significant damage from the earthquake and its aftershocks. About 308 people were killed and around 1500 were injured. 65,000 people were also left homeless, and had to go to homeless camps in the region and hotels around the Italian coastline. The total amount of damage caused was around 16 billion dollars. A major cause of casualties was the poor building standards in the region. Many sightings of light glows were seen prior, possibly as a warning to the coming of the earthquake.
The spheres involved in this geological event were the biosphere and the lithosphere respectively. The lithosphere was involved in the movement of The African Plate colliding with the Eurasian Plate, causing the earthquake and the aftershocks that hit the region. That earthquake affected the biosphere, which caused fatalities, damage to villages and homes, not to mention that many of the buildings in the region had existed since the medieval days.
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