Powerful earthquake in Morocco kills more
than 800 people
Posted By: DW626, 9/9/2023 6:54:07 AM
A powerful earthquake in Morocco has killed more than 800 people and injured hundreds more, destroying buildings and sending residents of major cities rushing from their homes in the country’s deadliest tremor in more than six decades. The magnitude 7.2 quake struck in Morocco’s High Atlas mountains late on Friday night. The Interior Ministry said 820 people had been killed and another 672 injured, in an updated casualty toll. A local official said most deaths were in mountain areas that were hard to reach. In Marrakesh, the nearest big city to the epicenter, residents spent the night in the open, afraid to go home.
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It was asked over 40 years ago and led to one of the biggest landslide elections in U.S. history.
As the Harvard Kennedy School summarized:
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He Will Not Comply with Temporary New
Mexico Gun Ban 13 replies
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Grisham temporarily suspended open and concealed carry laws in Bernalillo County effective immediately.
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A powerful earthquake in Morocco has killed more than 800 people and injured hundreds more, destroying buildings and sending residents of major cities rushing from their homes in the country’s deadliest tremor in more than six decades.
The magnitude 7.2 quake struck in Morocco’s High Atlas mountains late on Friday night.
The Interior Ministry said 820 people had been killed and another 672 injured, in an updated casualty toll.
A local official said most deaths were in mountain areas that were hard to reach.
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