At least 296 dead, reports of destruction in the Medina of Marrakesh, the epicenter just southwest of the city - https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2023/9/9/moroccos-powerful-earthquake-what-we-know-so-far
Earthquake in Morocco
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Terrible news. Death toll bound to rise. Hope we’re sending some rescue crews out there.
BBC now reporting 600 dead, unfortunately the toll is rising fast this morning.
Everything I'm reading sounds horrible, am reading (non-English) news saying it's over 600 dead. 
(oh somehow didn't see @2cents most recent post).
(oh somehow didn't see @2cents most recent post).Terrible news. My wife was there for a vacation just 2 months ago. Really shocking and sad.
I have a group of mates who literally just spent the week in Marrakesh and left yesterday morning. Crazily lucky timing.
I drove around those mountains and visited some of those villages / hamlets near the epicenter, this time last year...theres going to be some horrific carnage.
Jesus. Awful. So soon after Turkey
How unfortunate. Deceased number increasing steadily unfortunately.
Terrible news. Death toll will be high. I'm in the south of Portugal near the Algarve at the moment and I actually felt it. I hope Marocco gets the help they need.
Sad news - deaths up to 890s now.
Some scary footage here, you can see the famous minaret of the Kutubiyya Mosque in central Marrakesh shaking badly:
Awful news
Jesus christ.
Now over a 1,000 deaths reported. Damn, this is huge...
(I wasn't even aware Morocco is situated in an earthquake region, but I see that's just my ignorance. They've had other big earthquakes in recent decades.)
(I wasn't even aware Morocco is situated in an earthquake region, but I see that's just my ignorance. They've had other big earthquakes in recent decades.)
Horrific, hopefully more people that are found are still alive.
I really hope that the country and people are getting all the help they need in finding more alive and injured who can be made better.
I really hope that the country and people are getting all the help they need in finding more alive and injured who can be made better.
Been to Morocco and specifically Marrakech many times, have been following the tragic events since last night with dread as the death toll rises.
Epicentre was in a rural area in the Atlas Mountains with mostly basic construction and infrastructure - entire villages have been wiped out.
Some damage to historic buildings in Marrakech Old Town but most of the city is thankfully unaffected.
Still a risk of aftershocks which must be very stressful for anyone on the ground.
Epicentre was in a rural area in the Atlas Mountains with mostly basic construction and infrastructure - entire villages have been wiped out.
Some damage to historic buildings in Marrakech Old Town but most of the city is thankfully unaffected.
Still a risk of aftershocks which must be very stressful for anyone on the ground.
In Marrakech/Atlas Mountains area this is the biggest earthquake in over a century, so not expected or prepared for at all.
There had been a sizeable earthquake in Agadir (Atlantic Coast) back in the 1960s - death toll was higher since it hit a densely populated city on that occasion
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Over 2K fatalities currently.
RIP.
Earthquakes are one of the few things I'm genuinely scared about.
Earthquakes are one of the few things I'm genuinely scared about.
Awful awful news. This is entirely new to that part of the world in modern times, right?
I remember Algeria had a serious earthquake twenty years ago (I was working with about thirty Algerian guys at the time), just checked and it seems to have been of similar magnitude to this one.
Unfortunately, this appears not to be the case elsewhere. The Tinmal mosque has been reduced to ruins.
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If that's the level of damage it can wreak to Tinmal, it's easy to imagine, as you say, that whole villages of basic construction are wiped out.
Hmm so I guess it's just spaced out but still a sort of danger/hot zone.
Devestating to see a historic monument like Tinmal in such a state - Ive been up there a couple of times, stunning location up in the mountains but its close to the epicentre so not surprising.
Death toll now over 2000 but 10s of thousands more will be injured, homeless etc.
A colleague of mine is out there and part of the relief efforts taking food, clothing etc up to the rural communities who are most affected.
Contrary to some media reports, Marrakech itself has escaped any major damage thankfully but, as the nearest city, hospitals etc are overcapacity and most relief efforts are coming from there.
I'd already forgotten that Turkey (and Syria) had an earthquake that killed 60k earlier this year. 2k is still so many people to die in a natural disaster, though.
And now a dam has burst in Libya, 10,000 people missing. Just hearing reports. Wonder if it’s connected to the earthquake in Morocco?
2cents made a new thread for this now. Caused by a storm, so unrelated to the earthquake.