{"id":17589,"date":"2023-09-09T04:45:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T04:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=17589"},"modified":"2023-09-09T04:45:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T04:45:17","slug":"breaking-hundreds-dead-in-morocco-after-late-night-7-2-magnitude-earthquake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=17589","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Hundreds Dead in Morocco After Late Night 7.2 Magnitude Earthquake"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>At least 296 people are dead and 153 injured after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake hit Morocco late Friday night.<\/h3>\n<p>The interior ministry expects the death toll to rise, as most of the deaths have been in mountain areas that are hard for rescuers to reach.<\/p>\n<p>The city of Agadir in southern Morocco also experienced a severe tremor; the earthquake\u2019s magnitude has been revised upwards from 6.9 to 7.2 thus far. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TT9MSvYo1O\">pic.twitter.com\/TT9MSvYo1O<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Younes Winter  (@Hacking4Arabs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Hacking4Arabs\/status\/1700323150829887925?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 9, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>The area near the historic Marrakech city was the hardest hit, but tremors were felt as far away as Portugal and Algeria.<\/p>\n<p> An earthquake of magnitude 7.2 hits in the African country of Morocco on Friday night. In which 296 people have died so far. According to the Geological Survey, this is the most powerful earthquake in the area in 120 years.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/earthquake?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#earthquake<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Morocco?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Morocco<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ieilz8ABqi\">pic.twitter.com\/Ieilz8ABqi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Harsh Patel (@Harshpatel1408) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Harshpatel1408\/status\/1700348023216251275?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 9, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>The earthquake struck at 11:11 p.m. An aftershock hit just 19 minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>The Independent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/africa\/morocco-earthquake-live-marrakech-tremor-latest-b2408319.html\">reports<\/a>, \u201cMorocco\u2019s National Seismic Monitoring and Alert Network said the earthquake struck in the Ighil area of the High Atlas with a magnitude of 7.2 on the Richter scale. A 4.9-magnitude aftershock was reported just 19 minutes after the earthquake, according to the US Geological Survey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbout 20 million people felt the impact of the earthquake that has struck Morocco, while over 2 million people experienced strong to very strong shaking, according to an estimate by the US Geological Survey (USGS),\u201d the report added.<\/p>\n<p>Morocco got slammed by a 6.8 magnitude earthquake. 118 dead and counting. People on stretchers in the streets.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re the praying type, now is as good a time as ever. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bNfDa59Q6r\">pic.twitter.com\/bNfDa59Q6r<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CitizenFreePres\/status\/1700326725761052926?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 9, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>In 1960, Morocco had a 5.8-magnitude earthquake that struck near Agadir and caused thousands of deaths.<\/p>\n\n<p><em>This is a breaking story, The Gateway Pundit will be providing updates as the situation unfolds.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2023\/09\/breaking-hundreds-dead-morocco-after-late-night-7\/\">BREAKING: Hundreds Dead in Morocco After Late Night 7.2 Magnitude Earthquake<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/\">The Gateway Pundit<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 296 people are dead and 153 injured after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake hit Morocco late Friday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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