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“I started to panic,” said Meghan Huffman of Charlotte. “I initially thought the hotel was under attack — sirens were going off, the shaking ... felt like hours.”
The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake had a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 and occurred about 18 kilometers below the surface.
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A rare, powerful earthquake has struck Morocco, sending people racing from their beds into the darkened streets and toppling buildings in mountainous villages and ancient cities not built to withstand
A magnitude 3.9 aftershock rattled Moroccans on Sunday as they prayed for victims of the nation's strongest earthquake in more than a century and worked to rescue survivors while soldiers and workers brought water and supplies to mountain villages in ruins. More than 2,000 people are dead -- a number that is expected to rise.