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TOPSHOT - A man stands among damaged buildings after a strong earthquake hit central Italy, in Amatrice on August 24, 2016. A powerful 6.2-magnitude earthquake devastated mountain villages in central Italy on August 24, 2016, left 38 people dead and the total is likely to rise, the country's civil protection unit said in the first official death toll. Scores of buildings were reduced to dusty piles of masonry in communities close to the epicentre of the pre-dawn quake in a remote area straddling the regions of Umbria, Marche and Lazio. / AFP / FILIPPO MONTEFORTE (Photo credit should read FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP/Getty Images)

TOPSHOT - A man stands among damaged buildings after a strong earthquake hit central Italy, in Amatrice on August 24, 2016.

A powerful 6.2-magnitude earthquake devastated mountain villages in central Italy on August 24, 2016, left 38 people dead and the total is likely to rise, the country's civil protection unit said in the first official death toll. Scores of buildings were reduced to dusty piles of masonry in communities close to the epicentre of the pre-dawn quake in a remote area straddling the regions of Umbria, Marche and Lazio. / AFP / FILIPPO MONTEFORTE        (Photo credit should read FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP/Getty Images)