A pair of earthquakes struck the Romagna area of northern Italy on Tuesday morning, rattling towns across the provinces of Ravenna and Forlì-Cesena and sending many residents into the streets in alarm.

According to Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, the first and stronger tremor hit at 9:27 a.m. with a magnitude of 4.3. Its epicenter was located a few kilometers from the town of Russi, between Ravenna and Forlì, at a depth of about 23 kilometers. Just two minutes later, a second quake measuring around 4.1 was recorded near Faenza, not far from the first epicenter.

The shaking was widely felt across the area, especially in Forlì, where people briefly left buildings out of fear. Despite the scare, emergency services reported no injuries and no significant damage. Fire brigades and civil protection teams carried out immediate checks and confirmed that no calls for assistance had been received.

Russi’s mayor, Valentina Palli, reassured residents in a public message, saying that precautionary evacuations had taken place calmly and that the situation was being closely monitored. Authorities continue to assess the area, but for now the earthquakes appear to have caused little more than a moment of panic.