A Magnitude earthquake 5.2 On the Richter scale, the province of Uzan, in northern Morocco, has shaken on Monday night. The National Institute of Geophysics of Morocco, affiliated with the National Center for Scientific and Technical Research, has indicated that The tremor has occurred at 23: 48h (22: 48h, Spanish peninsular time) in the Brikcha community, at a depth of 20 kilometers, about 140 kilometers south of Tangier.
The earthquake, that It has come to feel in some areas of Andalusiahas not caused fatal victims or material damage, according to sources consulted by the Maghreb Arabic Press agency. The Andalusia emergency agency received notice from several citizens who had perceived the tremor, several of them in the province of Seville.
The data of the Spanish National Geophysical Institute point to a tremor of magnitude 4.9. The area in which the epicenter of the earthquake is located is part of a moderate seismic activity region. Ouezzane, the province to which Brikcha belongs, usually suffers tremors often, although most of them do not usually have relevant consequences.
About 500 kilometers south of Brikcha registered one of the more powerful tremors of the last decadesof magnitude 6.8 —Corregida, after informing of an initial magnitude of 7—: with epicenter in southeastern Marrakech, in the Atlas mountain range, the tremor took place at 23:11 of September 8 of that year, causing the death of some 3,000 peoplein addition to thousands of injured.
Source: Lasexta
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