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The earthquake was also felt in Spain, Portugal, and Algeria. [5] [6] [7] It is the strongest instrumentally recorded earthquake in Morocco, the deadliest in the country since the 1960 Agadir earthquake, and the second-deadliest earthquake of 2023 after the Turkey–Syria earthquakes. [8]
World leaders share their support for Morocco. Saturday 9 September 2023 20:45, ... The Morocco earthquake that has killed over 800 was the strongest to hit the North African nation in over a century.
September 9, 2023 at 6:03 PM. MARRAKECH, Morocco (AP) — A rare, powerful earthquake struck Morocco, sending people racing from their beds into the streets and toppling buildings in mountainous ...
September 9, 2023 at 6:39 PM. ... The 6.8-magnitude earthquake shook Morocco’s High Atlas mountain range shortly after 11 p.m. local time on Friday (6 p.m. ET) at the relatively shallow depth of ...
September 9, 2023 at 4:46 PM. ... Doctors Without Borders, or MSF, says it is prepared to respond to the earthquake in Morocco that killed more than 1,000 people and left many more injured.
In September, Morocco suffered its largest earthquake in centuries; the M w 6.8 shock killed nearly 3,000 people. In October, four M w 6.3 earthquakes struck Afghanistan's Herat Province , killing over 1,400 people.
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.
A man walks past a damaged wall of the historic Medina of Marrakech, after after an earthquake in Morocco, Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023. A rare, powerful earthquake struck Morocco late Friday night ...