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Re: Earthquake in High Atlas mountains
By: Emlyn Morgan Date: September 12, 2023, 10:58 am
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[quote author=Zyngaru link=topic=3019.msg27746#msg27746
date=1694462743]
If you can get a map that shows the fault line and how it runs,
that will give you an even better idea of where the major damage
will be. If Marrakesh was hit hard and is 45 miles from the
epicenter, I will make a guess that the fault line runs through
or very close to Marrakesh.[/quote]
I see. I knew my 45-mile circle was a crude measure because
there are no reports of much damage to villages and towns in
some parts of that circle.
[quote author=Zyngaru] I lived a short time in California, USA
as a boy, and you didn't want to live on or near one of the
major fault lines. That's as bad as living at the base of a
volcano. I don't understand why people do that, but they do.
[/quote]
It does seem to be a human trait to rebuild cities on the sites
of previous volcano and earthquake devastation.
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Re: Earthquake in High Atlas mountains
By: Zyngaru Date: September 12, 2023, 2:25 pm
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[quote author=Emlyn Morgan link=topic=3019.msg27751#msg27751
date=1694534312]
It does seem to be a human trait to rebuild cities on the sites
of previous volcano and earthquake devastation.
[/quote]
Yes. Look at Mount Vesuvius. The volcano that destroyed
Pompeii. What have people done? They built the city of Naples,
Italy at its base and if Vesuvius erupts like it did in the
first century, a million people could lose their lives.
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Re: Earthquake in High Atlas mountains
By: Plagosus Date: June 23, 2024, 5:06 pm
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How well are the affected areas recovering?
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Re: Earthquake in High Atlas mountains
By: Emlyn Morgan Date: June 24, 2024, 8:24 am
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Nine months later much of the High Atlas is still a disaster
zone with thousands still living in improvised emergency
shelters. In many villages reconstruction has not started.
I believe money is not the problem. Expressed in USD, Morocco
has allocated 12 billion dollars to the 5-yr plan, included
14000 dollars for each collapsed house and 8000 for partial
collapses. Of course these are just figures in a ledger which
take much time and planning to become tangible results.
So, apart from inevitable bureaucracy what is the problem? As I
see it: the scale of the devastation: the remote mountainous
nature of the terrain: hundreds of villages on steep
mountainsides: some villages flattened or nearly totally
destroyed: the climate, freezing in winter, deep snows, baking
in summer, and sometimes torrential rain: broken roads, some
blocked by fifty-ton boulders (which apparently shot there from
mountainsides at (I read) 50 mph, some of them through villages
causing destruction in their path: water channels and pipes
broken.
Regarding the scale of devastation: 60,000 houses destroyed, 500
schools damaged, 2000 mosques.
And, we don't forget, 3000 souls killed and 4600 injured.
Note: My information is from journals and Internet reports. I
have not personally visited the High Atlas since the earthquake.
The bottom photo taken before the earthquake shows one of the
hundreds of villages affected. The other two photos are of the
same village a month ago, with temporary emergency
accommodation.
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