Magnitude 4.3 Earthquake Strikes Driouch, Morocco’s Third in Two Weeks

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Magnitude 4.3 Earthquake Strikes Driouch, Morocco's Third in Two Weeks

The National Institute of Geophysics (ING) announced that it recorded a seismic shock on Friday with a magnitude of 4.3 on the Richter scale in the province of Driouch. This is the third in the space of two weeks.

New earthquake in Driouch. The epicenter of the shock occurred at 12:10:54 pm (GMT+1), and is located off the coast of the province of Driouch, according to the National Seismic Monitoring and Alert Network of the National Institute of Geophysics (ING), in a seismic alert bulletin.

According to the same source, the felt shock has a depth of 15 km, a latitude of 35.616°N and a longitude of 3.603°W.