Magnitude-4.5 Quake Recorded off Driouch Province

Rabat - A magnitude-4.5 earthquake was recorded Monday off the province of Driouch, said the National Institute of Geophysics (ING). The tremor, whose epicenter is located off the coast of Driouch province, occurred at 1:40:25 a.m. (GMT+1), added the ING's National Seismic Monitoring and Warning Network in a seismic alert bulletin. At a depth of 16 km, the tremor occurred at a latitude of 35.531 °N and a longitude of 3.502 °W, according to the same source. Source: Agence Marocaine De Presse