Morocco is the 44th country Dave Bernhisel has visited. But this travel adventure was different as he felt the tremors of an earthquake with an epicenter about 50 miles away.
SALT LAKE CITY — It’s a devastating time for Morocco as the country grapples with one of the deadliest disasters in its history. More than 2,000 people have lost their lives in a 6.8 magnitude earthquake that hit Morocco Friday night.
“At about 12:30 in the morning, I was sound asleep. For 15 seconds, everything shook. At first, you’re dead asleep and you’re like, 'Is this a dream?' and you sort of are kind of disoriented a little bit, and you realize what’s going on. By that time, it stopped.” “A lot of damage, you know, bricks falling, cracks,” explained Bernhisel. “The city square is full of several hundred people sleeping on the ground. Presumably, their place has collapsed. Yeah, it's very sad.”“This one person was opening up and he sold some kind of glass kind of things and it was just massive broken stuff in the middle of his garage-sized thing, and it just broke my heart too because you could see the look on his face.
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