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Morocco Earthquake LIVE news: A powerful earthquake that struck Morocco late Friday night killed at least 296 people, the country's Interior Ministry said. Moroccans posted videos showing buildings reduced to rubble and dust and parts of the famous red walls that surround the old city in historic Marrakech, a UNESCO World Heritage site, damaged.
The US Geological Survey said the quake had a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 when it hit at 11:11 pm, with shaking that lasted several seconds. Morocco's National Seismic Monitoring and Alert Network measured it at 7 on the Richter scale.
The US agency reported a magnitude 4.9 aftershock hit 19 minutes later.Morocco Earthquake LIVE news: In 2004, at least 628 people were killed and 926 injured when a quake hit Al Hoceima in northeastern Morocco. The 1980, the 7.3-magnitude El Asnam earthquake in neighbouring Algeria was one of the largest and most destructive earthquakes in recent history.
It killed 2,500 people and left at least 300,000 homeless.Morocco Earthquake LIVE news: Abderrahim Ait Daoud, head of the town of Talat N’Yaaqoub, said authorities are working to clear roads in Al Haouz Province to allow passage for ambulances and aid to populations affected, but said large distances between mountain villages mean it will take time to learn the extent of the damage.Morocco Earthquake LIVE news: Lahcen Mhanni, Head of the Seismic Monitoring and Warning Department at the National Institute of Geophysics, told 2M TV that the earthquake was “exceptional." “Mountainous regions in general do not produce earthquakes of this size," he said. "It is the strongest earthquake recorded in the region."Morocco Earthquake LIVE news: A rare, powerful earthquake struck Morocco late Friday night,
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