More than 600 people have died and hundreds more are injured after a 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck in Morocco. The number of dead is expected to rise as rescuers dig through rubble and attempt to reach remote villages.
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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