The earthquake struck late on Friday - damaging homes in major cities and sending panicked people pouring into the streets. Many of the fatalities are said to be in hard-to-reach areas south of Marrakech.
The size and shallow depth of the Morocco earthquake means it's likely to have caused damage across a wide area.
The location is within the African tectonic plate, around 350 miles south of the boundary with the Eurasia plate that Europe and much of Asia sit on.The USGS say earthquakes on what's called a reverse fault usually involve a slip over an area of around 20 miles long by 12 miles wide.In 2004 a magnitude 6.3 quake in Al Hoceima, on the Mediterranean coast, caused 631 deaths, with severe damage to the surrounding area.
This is one of Morocco's strongest earthquakes in years - and although they are relatively rare, a 5.8 magnitude tremor in 1960 caused thousands of deaths.There's scepticism over Zelenskyy's ultimate objectives
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