Many people in and around the Italian city of Naples have spent the night on the streets and in their cars after an earthquake shook buildings and brought rubble crashing down.

Italian seismologists said the 4.4 magnitude tremor struck at 01:25 local time (00:25 GMT) on Thursday at a shallow depth of 3km (two miles), on the coast between Pozzuoli and Bagnoli.

The quake was felt across Naples and power supplies were disrupted in parts of the city.

Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) said that there was “no evidence” that an eruption of nearby Mount Vesuvius was imminent.