Reacción a "Reactions: Earthquake hits Morocco, leaves hundreds dead"

This earthquake was in the mountains about halfway between Agadir and Marrakech. It was about 500 km south of the boundary between the African tectonic plate and the Eurasian plate, but nevertheless it was a consequence of the northward collision of Africa into Eurasia in a place where the High Atlas mountains are being thrust upwards.  This earthquake was magnitude 6.8, and there has been nothing bigger than 6.0 within 500 km of the epicentre since before 1900.

Neither people nor civil authorities are likely to have been well prepared for this, and I would be surprised if even modern buildings were built to be resilient to major ground shaking. We wait to learn whether landslides have taken many lives, in addition to buildings that were shaken down.