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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]
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.
Morocco has suffered earthquakes in the past, but few in its history have been so powerful. This quake is Morocco’s deadliest since 1960, when an earthquake killed more than 12,000 people.
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 ...
Northern Morocco experiences earthquakes more often, including tremors of magnitude 6.4 in 2004 and magnitude 6.3 in 2016. Elsewhere this year, a magnitude 7.8 temblor that shook Syria and Turkey ...
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 M w scale magnitude of 5.8, its relatively shallow depth (15.0 km [ 7 ] ) resulted in strong surface shaking, with a maximum perceived ...
A rare, powerful earthquake struck Morocco, sending people racing from their beds into the streets and toppling buildings in mountainous villages and ancient cities not built to withstand such force.
A rare, powerful earthquake struck Morocco late Friday night, killing more than 800 people and damaging buildings from villages in the Atlas Mountains to the historic city of Marrakech. State ...