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RABAT, Sept 8 (Reuters) - A powerful earthquake of magnitude 6.8 struck central Morocco late on Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, shaking buildings in nearby Marrakesh and sending panicked residents out into the streets. The scale of the damage was not immediately clear. Some videos shared on social media, which Reuters could not immediately verify, appeared to show at least one building collapsing and rubble in the streets. Others showed people running out of a shopping center, restaurants and apartment buildings and congregating outside. In Marrakesh, resident Brahim Himmi said he saw ambulances coming out of the old town and that many building facades were damaged.
Persons: Brahim Himmi, Ahmed El Jechtimi, Jose Joseph, Rosalba O'Brien, Jonathan Oatis Organizations: U.S . Geological Survey, Reuters, Thomson Locations: RABAT, Morocco, U.S, Marrakesh, Oukaimeden, Rabat, Bengaluru
Since 1900, there have been no earthquakes M6 (magnitude 6) and larger within 500 km of this earthquake, and only 9 M5 (magnitude 5) and larger earthquakes,” USGS said. Most houses in the mountain village of Asni near the epicenter were damaged, Montasir Itri, a local resident, told Reuters. Morrow state-run Al-Aoula television on Saturday showed multiple buildings collapsed near the epicenter of the earthquake. I’m still in the road with my children and we’re scared,” Houda Hafsi, a 43-year-old Marrakech resident, told Reuters. Before the Covid pandemic, the old city drew nearly three million tourists in 2019.
Persons: Montasir, , Hamid Afkar, Waaziz Hassan, Brahim Himmi, I’m, Houda, Aoula Organizations: CNN, United States Geological Survey, Reuters, Royal Moroccan Armed Forces, Twitter, “ Earthquakes, National, of Geophysics, , UNESCO Locations: Morocco, African, Marrakech, Asni, Taroudant, Morrow, Al, Rabat
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