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Hundreds of people have been killed after a powerful 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck Morocco on Friday night.
The epicenter was in the High Atlas mountains, about 72 kilometers (44.7 miles) southwest of Marrakech, a city of some 840,000 people and a popular tourist destination.
The quake was the strongest to hit that part of the North African nation in more than 120 years, according to the US Geological Survey.— Read on www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/morocco-earthquake-09-09-2023/index.html
Multiple buildings collapsed following Friday night’s quake southwest of Marrakech city in Morocco, footage aired by the state-run Al-Aoula TV station showed..
The US body predicted that “significant damage is likely and the disaster is potentially widespread”, noting that many people in the area reside in structures that are “highly vulnerable to earthquake shaking.”