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Join on Telegram Rabat – A telluric tremor with a 3.9 degrees magnitude on the Richter scale was recorded this Sunday off the coast of Driouch province, according to the National Institute of Geophysics (ING).
The tremor, whose epicenter is located off the province of Driouch, occurred at 1:30 am, said the ING in a seismic alert bulletin.
The tremor occurred at a latitude of 35.655 N, a longitude of 3.517 W, and a depth of 24 km, according to the same source.
No major material and human losses have been reported as of this date.
Tremors have become frequent 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.
As recently as last month, Driouch recorded an earthquake of 5.5 magnitude on the Richter scale .
On November 24 last year, two earthquakes of magnitude 2.1 and 3.5 respectively hit the same province.
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 back in August 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 back in January 2016.
The 2016 earthquake is considered relatively violent, with a magnitude of 6.3 degrees on the Richter scale.
Jebbour said that despite the long period between the main shock and the aftershocks, the repeated occurence of minor quakes on the Driouch province is “normal.”
The delay in aftershocks is also due to the “complex geology of the northern coastal strip adjacent to the Alboran Sea or the western part of the Mediterranean,” Jebbour told national media in August.
“These tremors fill a void in terms of seismic activity in the maritime area. We made sure that these are aftershocks and not premonitory jolts,” he said.
