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EXPLAINED: Where in morocco did the earthquake strike - The Real Truth

A woman evacuates with her belongings through the rubble in the earthquake-damaged old city of Marrakesh on Saturday [Fadel Senna/AFP]

The earthquake’s epicentre was the Ighil area, a mountainous rural commune home to small farming villages in the al-Haouz province near the ski resort of Oukaimeden in the Atlas Mountains.

Lanchen Haddad, a Moroccan senator and former minister, told Al Jazeera the area was “not known for being active in terms of earthquakes”.

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