{"id":9370,"date":"2023-09-09T16:38:36","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T16:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prosfunds.com\/business\/moroccan-earthquake-claims-more-than-1000-lives\/"},"modified":"2023-09-09T16:38:36","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T16:38:36","slug":"moroccan-earthquake-claims-more-than-1000-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prosfunds.com\/?p=9370","title":{"rendered":"Moroccan earthquake claims more than 1,000 lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Receive free Morocco updates<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description\"><span>We\u2019ll send you a <i>myFT Daily Digest<\/i> email rounding up the latest<!-- --> <!-- -->Morocco<!-- --> news every morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"article__content-sign-up-iframe close\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"signUpIframe\" data-prev-url=\"\/register\/in-article-sign-up?ft-content-uuid=f381999f-d990-4113-9498-3690f7374eb7&amp;concept-id=9a088284-ea32-40d4-aa83-8313788b76e7\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div data-attribute=\"article-content-body\">\n<p>A powerful earthquake struck Morocco on Friday night, killing more than 1,000 people in the High Atlas region near the medieval city of Marrakech.<\/p>\n<p>Morocco\u2019s interior ministry on Saturday morning said that 1,037 people had been killed and another 672 injured. The earthquake, which struck shortly after 11pm, hit hardest in the provinces of Al Haouz, Ouarzazate, Marrakech, Azilal, Chichaoua and Taroudant. The tremors were felt as far as Rabat and Casablanca on the Atlantic coast, where some residents fled their homes and spent the night on the streets.<\/p>\n<p>An official told Reuters that most of the dead were in remote mountain villages in the High Atlas in central Morocco. Landslides triggered by the earthquake have impeded rescuers\u2019 access to some villages. Authorities in Marrakech have called on residents to donate blood.<\/p>\n<p>The earthquake, which Morocco\u2019s geophysical centre said struck in the Ighil area of the High Atlas with a magnitude of 7.2, was the most powerful to have hit the country since a 2004 tremor in al Hoceima in the northern Rif mountains killed 600 people. The US Geological Survey put the latest quake\u2019s magnitude at 6.8.<\/p>\n<p>Video footage showed rubble covering cars in a street in the old town of Marrakech where buildings and the minaret from a mosque had collapsed. Hundreds of locals and tourists fled their hotels and homes in fear of aftershocks and have gathered in the city\u2019s famed Jemaa al-Fnaa square. <\/p>\n<p><experimental><\/experimental><\/p>\n<p>The old city centre, with its markets, traditional houses, museums and mosques, is a Unesco world heritage site. Local reports say that a section of the medieval city wall surrounding the centre had cracked.<\/p>\n<p>Montasir Itri, a resident of the mountain village of Asni near the epicentre, told Reuters that many houses there were damaged. \u201cOur neighbours are under the rubble,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the destruction and loss of life, authorities will be worried about the earthquake\u2019s impact on tourism. Marrakech is a popular travel destination and the number of visitors is expected to surpass pre-Covid levels this year. According to the tourism ministry, Morocco was on track to attract a record 14mn visitors in 2023.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/f381999f-d990-4113-9498-3690f7374eb7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Receive free Morocco updates We\u2019ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Morocco news every morning. A powerful earthquake struck Morocco on Friday night, killing more than 1,000 people in the High Atlas region near the medieval city of Marrakech. Morocco\u2019s interior ministry on Saturday morning said that 1,037 people had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Moroccan earthquake claims more than 1,000 lives | Prosfunds<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Receive free Morocco updatesWe\u2019ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Morocco news every morning. 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