New developments for the Morocco - Spain tunnel

The focus is specifically on the "sill of the strait", an area located to the west where the maximum depth is 300 meters, but which corresponds to the critical collision point between the Eurasian and African tectonic plates.

This analysis campaign must dispel the last doubts about the safety of the future 14-kilometer railway corridor. The Spanish Society for the Study of Fixed Communications (SECEGSA) will rely on the deployment of seismometers on the seabed to monitor fault activity and model tsunami risks. These geodynamic data are essential to materialize this fixed link project, which abandoned the suspended bridge option as early as 1989 in favor of an underground solution.

The operational framework of this cooperation was formalized last week in Madrid. During the High-Level Meeting, the Spanish Ministry of Transport and its Moroccan counterparts signed a memorandum of understanding sealing the partnership between the Spanish National Geographic Institute and the National Center for Scientific and Technical Research (CNRST). This agreement, one of the fourteen signed during the summit, formalizes the exchange of scientific information and the coordination of observation networks between the two countries.