3.6 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Off Coast of Morocco Near Agadir

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3.6 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Off Coast of Morocco Near Agadir

The province of Chtouka Ait Baha recorded, this Thursday, a seismic shock with a magnitude of 3.6 degrees on the Richter scale, according to the National Institute of Geophysics (ING).

The epicenter of this shock is located off Sidi Bibi in the province of Chtouka Ait Baha. In a seismic alert bulletin, the National Seismic Monitoring and Alert Network of the ING specified that this earthquake occurred at 6:51:42 PM (GMT+1).

According to the same source, the felt shock has a depth of 5 km, a latitude of 30.205°N and a longitude of 9.777°W.