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At the location of this earthquake, the African plate moves approximately 3.6 mm/year WSW relative to the Eurasia plate.
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The High Atlas Mountains contain a variety of mapped strike-slip and thrust faults, trending to the east-west and northeast-southwest.
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Earthquakes of this size in the region are uncommon but not unexpected. Since 1900 there have been 9 M5 and larger earthquakes within 500 km of this event, none of which are over M6.
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