Earthquake — Morocco: Agadir

When

29 Feb 1960

Kind

Earthquake

Magnitude

5.9

Where

Morocco

Coordinates

30.45° N, 9.62° W

Deaths

13100

Injuries

25000

Damage musd

120

Intensity mmi

10

Depth km

33

Earthquake in Morocco

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 (15.0 km) resulted in strong surface shaking, with a maximum perceived intensity of X (Extreme) on the Mercalli intensity scale.

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• NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The 5.7 Agadir earthquake shakes coastal Morocco with a maximum perceived intensity of X (Extreme)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Erdbeben der Stärke 5,7 in Agadir, Marokko, 10.000 bis 15.000 Tote; siehe Erdbeben von Agadir 1960”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “un tremblement de terre de magnitude 6,7 fait plus de victimes à Agadir au Maroc”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Un terremoto de 5,8 sacude la ciudad marroquí de Agadir, dejando un saldo de 15 000 fallecidos y 12 000 heridos”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page