Friday's 6.8-magnitude earthquake was Morocco's deadliest in decades
Morocco's devastating 6.8-magnitude earthquake that struck the country late on Friday night has claimed over 2,000 lives — making it the deadliest the country has seen in decades.
Another 2,000 people were hurt, including about 1,404 who remain in critical condition, according to Morocco's state TV Al Aoula.
The earthquake struck around 11:11 p.m. local time (6:11 p.m. ET). The epicenter was in the High Atlas mountains, about 72 kilometers (45 miles) southwest of Marrakech, a popular tourist city of about 840,000 people.
Not since 2004 has the country seen a comparable disaster, when a 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck the port city of Al Hoceima.
That earthquake left around 630 people dead and caused widespread damage.
Morocco's worst earthquake of modern times was in 1960 near the western city of Agadir. That disaster killed at least 12,000 people
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