Morocco Earthquake

I was in those villages last November... FaceTimed in those villages with my kids so they all got to meet the village children. Sure do hope they are ok

Horrible death toll so far...  sigh

The size and shallow depth of the Morocco earthquake means it's likely to have caused damage across a wide area. According to the US Geological Survey (USGS) the 6.8 magnitude earthquake was just 11 miles below the surface.

The epicentre was in the High Atlas Mountains near Oukaimeden, around 50 miles south of Marrakech.

It's a sparsely populated area with Amazigh, or Berber, villages. Houses are traditionally built with mud bricks and may not have withstood the shaking. There's also a risk of landslides on steep slopes.

The location is within the African tectonic plate, around 350 miles south of the boundary with the Eurasia plate that Europe and much of Asia sit on. The two plates are moving around 24mm a year relative to each other.

The USGS say earthquakes on what's called a reverse fault usually involve a slip over an area of around 20 miles long by 12 miles wide.

Large earthquakes are rare in Morocco.

https://news.sky.com/story/earthquake-in-morocco-has-killed-dozens-of-pe....

Sorry ..................

the children of the high atlas meeting the children of the finger lakes

I'm so glad your kids are meeting our world, fishcane.

This earthquake has wreaked the worst.

I blame Fukushima 

Here's some video shot of our visit with the villagers of the High Atlas..and a couple other things...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yapsWq9udOU