Magnitude 3.5 and 3.6 Earthquakes Shake Northern Morocco’s Driouch Province

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Magnitude 3.5 and 3.6 Earthquakes Shake Northern Morocco's Driouch Province

The National Institute of Geophysics (ING) announced that two new earthquakes of magnitude 3.5 and 3.6 on the Richter scale shook the province of Driouch this Saturday, August 21.

Driouch was awakened by two new earthquakes. The first shock with a magnitude of 3.5 on the Richter scale occurred at 00:25:28 (GMT+1), specifies the National Seismic Monitoring and Alert Network of the ING in a seismic alert bulletin. The felt shock has a depth of 26 km, a latitude of 35.500°N and a longitude of 3.658°W.

The second shock with a magnitude of 3.6 on the Richter scale occurred at 00:35:06 (GMT+1) with a depth of 9 km, a latitude of 35.567°N and a longitude of 3.612°W, the same source specifies.