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On 8 September 2023 at 23:11 DST (22:11 UTC), an earthquake with a moment magnitude of 6.9 and maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent) struck Morocco's Al Haouz Province. The earthquake's epicenter was 73.4 km (45.6 mi) southwest of Marrakesh, near the town of Ighil [2] and the Oukaïmeden ski resort in the Atlas Mountains. [3]
An updated map of the Morocco M6.9 earthquake shows the aftershocks in purple, and includes the Moroccan earthquake catalog from Pelaez et al. (2007) with a 1955 M5.8 earthquake near today’s ...
The Morocco earthquake that has killed more than 2,000 people was the strongest to hit the north African nation in several decades.. The earthquake struck just after 11pm on Friday and has ...
In Pictures: Heartbreak and loss as Morocco grieves earthquake victims 05:33 , Maroosha Muzaffar MOULAY BRAHIM, MOROCCO - SEPTEMBER 10: A woman looks into the rubble of a collapsed building on ...
Northern Morocco lies close to the boundary between the African Plate and the Eurasian Plate, the Azores–Gibraltar Transform Fault.This zone of right-lateral strike-slip becomes transpressional at its eastern end, with the development of large thrust faults.
Impact of the 2023 Marrakesh-Safi earthquake in Imi N'Tala. Imi N'Tala is a remote village in the Marrakesh–Safi region of Morocco. History. The village was heavily destroyed in the 2023 Marrakesh-Safi earthquake. At least 70 people died in the village. References
Morocco’s most powerful earthquake since at least 1900 has killed at least 2,497 people, the state news agency said in its latest update of the human toll on Monday, with thousands more injured ...
This quake is Morocco’s deadliest since 1960, when an earthquake killed more than 12,000 people. Earthquakes of this size in the region are uncommon, according to the US Geological Survey, but ...