Morocco earthquake: an insight with the geologist Giulio Di Toro, expert of earthquakes

12.09.2023

In Morocco it's a race against time to dig for survivors after the magnitude-6.8 earthquake occurred in Chichaoua Province at around 11 p.m. (local time), last Friday.

The death toll has risen to nearly 2.500 and and the earthquake destroyed many remote villages near the epicentre in the Atlas Mountains.

Here Professor Giulio Di Toro of the Department of Geosciences of the University of Padova explains the geology of the Morocco earthquake.