Morocco Earthquakes: Magnitude 4 Tremor Strikes Meknès

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Morocco Earthquakes: Magnitude 4 Tremor Strikes Meknès

A magnitude 4 earthquake struck the Meknès province this Saturday, May 9. This event is part of a series of recent seismic movements felt across northern Moroccan territory.

The ground shook late in the afternoon. The National Institute of Geophysics recorded a tremor with an intensity of 4 on the Richter scale this Saturday, precisely at 6:33 p.m. and two seconds. The epicenter of this earthquake was located nine kilometers deep, at the level of the municipality of Aïn Jemaa, situated in the province of Meknès.

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This seismic tremor is not isolated. A few days earlier, Wednesday at 4:36 p.m., seismographs had already detected another movement. A tremor with slightly weaker force, measured at 3.1, shook the city of Martil, in northern Morocco.