Rabat – An earthquake of 3.3 magnitude on the Richter scale was recorded today off the coast of Agadir’s province.
According to the National Institute of Geophysics (ING), the earthquake’s epicenter was located off the coast of the province at 7:47:07 this morning.
The earthquake occurred at a latitude of 30.342 North and a longitude of 9.731 West.
The quake came less than a week following a 4.5 earthquake that hit off the coast of the same province on Monday.
Morocco recorded one of its largest earthquakes in Agadir back in 1960, when the city’s outskirts were the epicenter of a 5.9 magnitude earthquake which destroyed many buildings and killed over 10,000 people.
Thousands also lost their residence to the 1960 earthquake.
