A few months after the devastating earthquake that struck the Al Haouz region, Morocco has experienced a number of successive tremors across the Kingdom, causing panic and scientific curiosity.
On Tuesday morning, the Beni Mellal-Khenifra region noted a 4.9 magnitude tremor, only a week after after a 3 degree quake hit the Khouribga province.
Nasser Jabour, Head of the Moroccan Institute of Geophysics and Seismology explained that “these tremors were expected after the violent and large earthquake in the High Atlas back in September.”
“The large earthquake in the Atlas deformed the Earth’s crust in a wide area,” stated Jabour, adding that “the pressure caused by the large earthquake caused other regions to also interact with this resulting compression.”
“Tremors of this level in many regions of Morocco are normal,” said the expert in a statement to Hespress.
Jabour said that the quake’s epicenter was in the Ait Mohammed community of Azilal province, emphasizing that this province is the meeting point of the High Atlas and the Middle Atlas, making it a sensitive area due to the interaction of the two mountainous masses in this exact region.
The expert acknowledged that seismic activity in the High Atlas is declining, although isolated earthquakes in other locations remain a possibility, but their exact timing cannot be predicted as they occur at random.
Jabour stressed that there was an increase in seismic activity by approximately 10% in all regions of Morocco after the devastating Al Haouz quake, calling on citizens “to remain calm in these cases,” a difficult feat considering many Moroccans are still grappling with the devastating earthquake’s aftermath.
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