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Join on Telegram Rabat – Morocco’s National Institute of Geophysics (ING) reported today an earthquake of magnitude 5.5 on the Richter scale off the province of Driouch.
In the report, the National Network of Monitoring and Seismic Alert, a branch of ING, assessed that the quake took place at 12:20 pm local time and that the epicenter was located in Driouch.
The tremor came with a depth of 16 kilometers, a latitude of 35.582°N, and a longitude of 3.625 °W, noted the institute.
No major material and human losses have been reported as of late Saturday evening.
Tremors have become a pattern in eastern Morocco in recent months, and the province of Driouch has been home to the latest series of quakes that have hit the region.
On November 24 last year, two earthquakes of magnitude 2.1 and 3.5 respectively hit the province of Driouch.
In late July and early August of this year, meanwhile, five earthquakes hit the same province in the space of just one week. Four of the tremors took place in the final week of July, whereas the fifth hit on August 1.
Amid the increasingly worrying frequency of tremors in the region, Nasser Jebbour, head of division at ING, has said that almost all of the earthquakes that the province of Driouch and other areas in eastern Morocco have registered in recent months are aftershocks of the main, more devastating, earthquake that hit the region in January 2016.
