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1960 Agadir earthquake

1960 CE · Morocco, Africa · Disaster

1960 Agadir earthquake
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The 1960 Agadir earthquake occurred on 29 February at 23:40:18 Western European Time near the city of Agadir, located in western Morocco on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean. Despite the earthquake's moderate Mw scale magnitude of 5. 8, its relatively shallow depth (15.

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