Morocco is hardly the first place that comes to mind when people think of earthquakes, but they are actually quite common. Compared with the colossal quakes that shake Turkey, Indonesia, Japan, China and other very seismically active parts of the planet, however, those that affect Morocco are not especially large.
Probably the most infamous is the 1960 Agadir earthquake, which took up to 15,000 lives in the south of the country. More recently another quake in 2004, with an epicentre on the north coast, killed more than 600 people.
This was the moment a powerful magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck Morocco near Marrakesh on Friday night, killing hundreds of people and destroying ancient buildings ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/EKZ4uPP8p9
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) September 9, 2023
