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Two Earthquakes Strike Morocco's Driouch Province Within Minutes

The National Institute of Geophysics (ING) announced that two new earthquakes of magnitude 4 and 3.8 on the Richter scale shook the province of Driouch this Sunday, February 6, 2022.

By Sébastien A.
Two Earthquakes Strike Morocco's Driouch Province Within Minutes

The first shock, with a magnitude of 4 on the Richter scale, occurred at 07:17:04 (GMT+1), according to the National Seismic Monitoring and Alert Network of the ING in a seismic alert bulletin. The felt shock had a depth of 10 km, a latitude of 35.597°N and a longitude of 3.640°W.

The second shock, with a magnitude of 3.8 on the Richter scale, occurred at 07:20:07 (GMT+1) with a depth of 6 km, a latitude of 35.688°N and a longitude of 3.609°W, according to the same source.