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The Latest: Old city near epicenter hard hit by Italy quake

In this image made from video, priests and nuns escaped from their church join residents in a square in front of a damaged church in Norcia, Italy, Sunday, Oct. 30, 2016 after a powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.6 rocked central and southern Italy following a week of temblors left thousands homeless. (Sky Italia via AP)
In this image made from video, priests and nuns escaped from their church join residents in a square in front of a damaged church in Norcia, Italy, Sunday, Oct. 30, 2016 after a powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.6 rocked central and southern Italy following a week of temblors left thousands homeless. (Sky Italia via AP)

By Associated Press 2 min read

ROME (AP) – The Latest on the powerful earthquake that has rocked already stricken central and southern Italy (all times local):

9:25 a.m.

The ancient city of Norcia, famed for its Benedictine monastery and its cured meats, is one of the locations hardest-hit by the latest earthquake to rock Italy.

Eyewitnesses said the St. Benedict cathedral, the 14th century cathedral in one of the city’s main piazza, crumbled in the Sunday morning quake and only its facade remains standing. Priests prayed in the piazza amid the rubble.

Norcia city assessor Giuseppina Perla tells the ANSA news agency, “It’s as if the whole city fell down.”