Satellite Data Reveals 20cm Ground Uplift Following Morocco’s Devastating Earthquake

The 6.8 magnitude earthquake that occurred in Morocco last week "caused the ground level to rise up to 20 centimeters near the epicenter of the earthquake," reports the newspaper "Japan in Arabic" in a publication on X (formerly Twitter), revealing the results of studies conducted by Japanese researchers on the Al Haouz earthquake.

"The Japan Geospatial Information Agency analyzed the earthquake that occurred in central Morocco on September 8 using Daichi-2 satellite data for terrestrial meteorology," noting a "deformation of the earth in an area located about 50 kilometers east and west and 100 kilometers north and south of the epicenter of the earthquake," it is stated.

The surfaces near the epicenter have risen "up to 20 centimeters and have subsided up to 7 centimeters to the south," the publication adds. "In another analysis, Professor Yagi Yuji of the University of Tsukuba [...] states that the area east and southeast of the epicenter could have experienced ’more significant shaking and greater losses’," the publication concludes.