Minor earthquake strikes Morocco's Meknes region

A minor earthquake measuring 2.0 on the Richter scale registered in Morocco's Meknes province on Saturday morning, August 1st, 2026. The National Institute of Geophysics, headquartered in Rabat, reported the seismic event.

According to Nacer Jabour, a Moroccan seismic activity expert and director of the institute, the earthquake's epicenter was at a depth of 7 kilometers within the M'haia commune in the Fez-Meknes region. Jabour refuted data from some specialized seismic monitoring applications that had reported a stronger tremor of 4.8 magnitude at a depth of 15 kilometers.

Jabour specified that the tremor occurred precisely at 7:34 AM local time. He emphasized that the earthquake was largely unfelt by the local population. "We record such tremors daily in different areas, and no one reports them to us... Therefore, they do not call for concern or panic," he stated.

The institute assured that its specialized services and teams are meticulously monitoring seismic activity. They reiterated that these are "normal, light tremors" consistent with the region's usual stable seismic pattern. Earlier on Saturday, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) had reported a 4.8 magnitude earthquake at 7:34 AM, with its epicenter near the town of Oued Nouioua, north of Meknes, at a depth of 15 kilometers.

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We record such tremors daily in different areas, and no one reports them to us... Therefore, they do not call for concern or panic