Reuben Fellow Richard Walker describes the background to the devastating 8 September 2023 Morocco earthquake in an article written for the University of Oxford:
The Agadir earthquake, the recent disaster, and other destructive earthquakes of north Africa such as the 1980 El Asman earthquake of Algeria all result from the slow convergence of the African and European continents. The Mediterranean is just a small remnant of what was once a much larger ocean, which is slowly but constantly narrowing at a rate of millimetres to centimetres per year along its extent... Continue reading
Richard has also written about the Türkiye/Syria earthquake disaster (February 2023) - See here.
