One Child Dies Four Injured in the 6.2 Quake which Struck Morocco

2016-01-25 07:53:39

(MENAFN- Morocco World News) ;">Rabat – The earthquake registering 6.2 on the Richter scale which struck the Mediterranean coastal cities of both Morocco and Spain in the early morning reportedly killed a child and caused some minor building collapses.

According to a local news website in Nador the regional hospital of Al Hoceima announced in early morning the death of an eight year old child and about four cases with fractures in the villages of Imzouren and Boukidan in El Hoceima.

Another local news website reported that the earthquake caused the falling of the local authorities' headquarter in the village of Bani Chiker in the outskirt of Nador causing also cracks in the walls of several buildings.

A video posted on YouTube shows that streets in the two occupied enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla in the north of Morocco were littered with debris following the quake which struck at 04:20 GMT.

People felt the quake and went outside fearing to go back inside their houses.

Following the earthquake emergency services and firefighting trucks were reportedly seen circulating the streets of Nador for any potential damage caused by the quake.

The earthquake has been widely reported and covered by international media while -at the time of writing- no official statements from the Moroccan authorities have been issued yet.

According to RT Researchers linked today's earthquake to a groundwater extraction on a massive scale. The study revealed that 'the loss of water changed the Earth's crust along the Alhama de Murcia fault line and that disturbance was enough to trigger an ‘elastic rebound’ (a rupture) in the rock leading to the earthquake.'

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