[Nessitro]

I was playing with my cat that night when she started acting weird. Shortly after, I started hearing cracking noise inside the walls. That's when it hit me. Went to my roommate's room and woke him up and got out. It wasn't as strong as I thought but strong enough to get everyone out to the main street. As we sat down waiting for potential aftershocks I heard someone saying people died way down south. I googled "earthquake morocco" and first estimations showed a town that not that far from taroudant region where grandma lives(mountainous rural area). I tried calling but to no avail as the cell network was congested. We went home after an hour and a half passing out from the exhaustion. Woke up the next morning and called her, she was okay but it was strong enough to render the whole village(douar) petrified and make the decision to sleep outside... I got into social media afterwards and was shocked to hear that 320 people died in Al houz region... it's more than 2300 people as of writing this. May they rest in peace and give the victims families patience to get through these difficult times.

This is a map of almost all of the villages(dawawir) that were most impacted by the earthquake: https://goo.gl/maps/xdfG5YnHC6Z2vEci6 (thanks to whoever made it)

If you'd like to donate, please do via official channels; Bank Al-Maghrib, our central bank, made a special fund for the management of the effects of the earthquake: https://www.bkam.ma/en/News/2023/Make-your-donations-to-the-...