- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- February 24, 2004 CE
- Location:
- Morocco
- Magnitude:
- 6.36 Mw
- Depth:
- 0 km
Cross-catalog records
This event is recorded in 6 separate scientific catalogs, each of which may give a different magnitude (the disagreement between catalogs is itself valuable for research):
- EMEC_2021: Mw 6.36
- NOAA_SIGEQ: Mw 6.4
- EMEC_2021: Mw 5.14
- EMEC_2021: Mw 4.17
- EMEC_2021: Mw 4.05
- EMEC_2021: Mw 3.57
Other earthquake records of 2004 CE
- Indonesia, Sumatra: Aceh: Off West Coast · Mw 9.1 · 227,899 deaths
- Morocco, Al Hoceima, Imzourene, Beni Abdallah · Mw 6.4 · 628 deaths
- Japan, Honshu: Niigata Prefecture · Mw 6.6 · 68 deaths
- Indonesia, Nabire · Mw 7 · 37 deaths
- Iran, Mazandaran, Qazvin, Tehran · Mw 6.3 · 35 deaths
- Indonesia, Kepulauan Alor · Mw 7.5 · 34 deaths
Source: Lammers, S., Weatherill, G., Grünthal, G. & Cotton, F. (2023): EMEC-2021 — The European-Mediterranean Earthquake Catalogue, Version 2021. GFZ, doi:10.5880/GFZ.EMEC.2021.001 · License: CC BY 4.0 · institutional record ↗
Frequently asked questions
- When did 2004 Morocco earthquake (Mw 6.4) (2004 CE) happen?
- February 24, 2004 CE.
- Where does this information come from?
- This record comes from Lammers, S., Weatherill, G., Grünthal, G. & Cotton, F. (2023): EMEC-2021 — The European-Mediterranean Earthquake Catalogue, Version 2021. GFZ, doi:10.5880/GFZ.EMEC.2021.001; it was not hand-authored and is stored together with its source.