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Earthquakes M5.5+ (1900–2016) in Mediterranean and North Africa. Morocco lies close to the Azores–Gibraltar Transform Fault, which is the boundary between the African Plate and the Eurasian Plate. [17] This zone of right-lateral strike-slip becomes transpressional at its eastern end, with the development of large thrust faults.
Earthquakes are relatively rare in North Africa. Lahcen Mhanni, Head of the Seismic Monitoring and Warning Department at the National Institute of Geophysics, told 2M TV that the earthquake was ...
Rescuers are digging through the rubble of collapsed homes in Morocco for survivors of one of the worst earthquakes to strike the country – with more than 2,000 already declared dead.
The 1960 Agadir earthquake occurred on 29 February at 23:40:18 Western European Time near the city of Agadir, located in western Morocco on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean. Despite the earthquake's moderate Mw scale magnitude of 5.8, its relatively shallow depth (15.0 km [ 7]) resulted in strong surface shaking, with a maximum perceived ...
The outcome of this is the Souss-Massa plain in today's South-West Morocco. This plain is surrounded by the High Atlas, the Anti-Atlas, the Sea of Atlas ( Atlantis Thalassa , today's Atlantic Ocean). Because of this isolated position, Hübner argued, this plain was called Atlantis Nesos , the Island of Atlas, by ancient Greeks before the Greek ...
The US Geological Survey has issued a map that has shown the location where the 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck in Morocco. The late night tremor that struck on Friday has left at least 296 dead ...
Since the three damaging earthquakes that occurred in the American Midwest and the United States East Coast ( 1755 Cape Ann, 1811–12 New Madrid, 1886 Charleston) were well known, it became apparent to settlers that the earthquake hazard was different in California. While the 1812 San Juan Capistrano, 1857 Fort Tejon, and 1872 Owens Valley ...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake rumbled underneath Los Angeles on Monday, less than a week after a bigger one jolted much of Southern California. The U.S. Geological Survey placed the epicenter of ...