Following the devastating earthquake that struck the Al Haouz region, the Royal Armed Forces (FAR) were deployed "urgently on the night of September 9, 2023" according to the "High Instructions of His Majesty the King Mohammed VI , Supreme Commander and Chief of Staff of the Royal Armed Forces".
The devastating earthquake that struck the province of Al Haouz on Friday evening left behind a heavy toll of 820 dead and 672 injured, "including 205 seriously," according to a statement from the Ministry of the Interior issued at 10 a.m. Saturday (Moroccan time).
Morocco was shaken by the "most violent earthquake in a century," said Nasser Jabour, an official at the National Institute of Geophysics.
The toll of the earthquake that shook the Marrakech province and other regions of Morocco on Friday evening is worsening.
The Moroccan Ministry of the Interior has published a provisional toll of 296 deaths and 153 injured following an earthquake of magnitude 7 on the Richter scale that hit a large part of the country on Friday evening.
A few hours after the earthquake that killed hundreds in Turkey, King Mohammed VI expressed his condolences to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The Agadir region recorded a seismic shock of magnitude 4.5 on the Richter scale this Monday morning, according to the National Institute of Geophysics (ING).
An earthquake of a magnitude of 4.8 on the Richter scale was recorded on Tuesday in the province of Driouch, in northern Morocco.
A tremor of a magnitude of 4 degrees on the Richter scale was recorded on Thursday evening in the north of Morocco .
The National Institute of Geophysics (ING) announced that a seismic shock of magnitude 4.4 on the open Richter scale hit Driouch on Saturday, April 16, 2022.
A slight earthquake of a magnitude of 3.5 on the Richter scale was recorded on Monday in the province of Sidi Kacem.
The city of Agadir proceeded, on Saturday, February 27, to the launch of the commemorative activities of the painful 1960 earthquake, which ravaged the metropolis of Souss in 15 seconds. The theme of this 61st anniversary is "reconstruction: identity, urbanism and progress".