A magnitude 3.2 temblor rattled the quake-devastated central Italian mountainside town of Amatrice on Monday, the national geophysics and vulcanology institute reported.
The quake struck between the Lazio and Abruzzo regions at 4.08 am and Amatrice and the nearby towns of Campotosto and Accumoli were the closest to its epicentre, the institute said
The tremor was located between the northern Lazio province of Rieti and the province of L'Aquila in Abruzzo. It was followed by two magnitude 2.0 quakes - at 4.15 am and 5 am in the province of Macerata in the neighbouring Marche region.
Five strong earthquakes have hit central Italy's mountainous spine since last August. The quakes have killed 300 people, left several thousand homeless and caused more than 23 billion euros of damage to homes and other buildings including medieval churches as well as to agriculture.
The 300 hundred victims all died in a powerful magnitude 6.2 quake on 24 August last year, 238 of them in Amatrice, which is in the province of Rieti.
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