A series of earthquakes off Sicily prompted a tsunami alert and precautionary evacuations, according to right-wing reports, which describe public concern in several coastal areas but no confirmed damage.

One account said 12 earthquakes struck in and around the southern Tyrrhenian Sea, northwest of the Aeolian Islands. It placed the largest at magnitude 5.0 at about 12:20 p.m. and said Messina and Palermo were among the worst-affected areas.¹ The report said the earlier quake registered at magnitude 3.3 at 11:04 a.m. in the Aeolian archipelago.¹

The same account reported that an orange tsunami warning led to school evacuations in Palermo and across to Messina, while a courthouse in Trapani was also cleared. Salvo Cocina, head of Sicily's Civil Protection, ordered an immediate state of alert and “ready operations” for affected municipalities.¹ It added that there had been no reports of damage at the time of publication.¹

A second report similarly described an urgent alert for visitors and said the magnitude-5.0 quake was the largest of the sequence, again identifying Messina and Palermo as the most affected regions.² But the two accounts differ on the smaller shocks: the first said all 11 remaining earthquakes exceeded magnitude 3.0, while the second said they were all above magnitude 4.0.¹²

Both reports frame the evacuations as preventive action rather than evidence of an established tsunami impact. Neither account reports casualties or structural damage from the Sicily sequence.¹