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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 ...
Epicentres of major earthquakes in Morocco with year of occurrence since 1900. ... Agadir: X 5.8 M w: 12,000–15,000 12,000 Extreme damage 1909-01-29 Tétouan: 100 [8]
Agadir (Arabic: أكادير or أڭادير, romanized: ʾagādīr, pronounced [ʔaɡaːdiːr]; Tachelhit: ⴰⴳⴰⴷⵉⵔ) is a major city in Morocco, on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean near the foot of the Atlas Mountains, just north of the point where the Souss River flows into the ocean, and 509 kilometres (316 mi) south of Casablanca.
The Morocco earthquake that has killed over 800 was the strongest to hit the North African nation in over a century. ... with a 1955 M5.8 earthquake near today’s event and the 1960 Agadir ...
Seaside cities popular with vacationers such as Essaouira and Agadir also felt it strongly, while the quake was felt as far north as Casablanca and Fez, around 300 miles northeast of Marrakech ...
Rescuers were digging through rubble in remote mountainous areas of Morocco on Saturday in a desperate bid to find survivors after more than 2,000 people were killed in the deadliest earthquake to ...
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]
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.