Magnitude 4.5 Earthquake Strikes Off Morocco's Driouch Coast

Magnitude 4.5 Earthquake Strikes Off Morocco's Driouch Coast
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Monday 27 May 2024 - 10:42

A tremor of magnitude 4.5 on the Richter scale was recorded on Monday in the province of Driouch, reported the National Institute of Geophysics (ING). The tremor, whose epicenter is located off the coast of Driouch province,

occurred at 01h 40min 25sec (GMT+1), the ING’s National Seismic Monitoring and Warning Network said in a seismic alert bulletin. The tremor occurred at a depth of 16 km, at a latitude of 35.531 °N and a longitude of 3.502 °W[4].

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