Morocco
MAR · 2024 energy mix · renewables 8.7% · fossil fuels 91.3%
Threat reading 0 of 100, classified STABLE. 1 events recorded here in the last seven days, 1 in the last thirty.
That number is computed from live feeds and moves. The live monitor is where to read it as of right now.
Where its energy comes from
| Oil | 61.2% |
|---|---|
| Coal | 26.8% |
| Wind | 6.7% |
| Gas | 3.3% |
| Solar | 1.9% |
| Hydro | 0.1% |
In 2024, renewables accounted for 8.7% and fossil fuels for 91.3%. On electricity traded with its neighbours, Morocco is close to balanced on electricity trade.
Sources under one per cent of the mix are left out of the table rather than listed as a row of zeroes. Percentages are shares of a country's primary energy, not of the power it generates.
Recorded history
NOAA's hazard records hold 21 significant earthquakes and one tsunami in or just off Morocco since 1276.
The deadliest was the 29 February 1960 magnitude 5.9 earthquake (Morocco: Agadir), which killed 13,100 people.
The strongest earthquake on record here was magnitude 6.8, on 8 September 2023 (Morocco: Marrakech, Safi).
Across the entries that record a death toll, 22,775 people died.
| Date | What | Where | Toll |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 February 1960 | magnitude 5.9 earthquake | Morocco: Agadir | 13,100 dead, $120 million damage |
| 15 April 1757 | earthquake | Morocco: Sale, Cape Cantin | 3,000 dead, damage $5 to 25 million |
| 19 November 1755 | earthquake | Morocco: Meknes, Fes | 3,000 dead, damage $5 to 25 million |
| 8 September 2023 | magnitude 6.8 earthquake | Morocco: Marrakech, Safi | 2,946 dead, 19,096 homes destroyed, $7,000 million damage |
| 24 February 2004 | magnitude 6.4 earthquake | Morocco: Al Hoceima, Imzourene, Beni Abdallah | 628 dead, 2,539 homes destroyed, $400 million damage |
| 29 January 1909 | earthquake | Morocco: Tetuan (Tetouan), Romars | 100 dead, damage $5 to 25 million |
| 25 January 2016 | magnitude 6.3 earthquake | Morocco: Melilla | 1 dead, damage under $1 million |
| 25 January 2016 | tsunami (waves to 0 m) | Morocco | 1 dead, damage under $1 million |
| 18 December 1926 | earthquake | Morocco: Fes (Fez) | damage $5 to 25 million |
| 27 October 1910 | earthquake | Morocco: Melilla; Canary I: Penon de la Gomera | damage $1 to 5 million |
| February 1848 | earthquake | Morocco: Melilla | damage $1 to 5 million |
| 8 April 1821 | earthquake | Morocco: Melilla | damage $5 to 25 million |
| April 1808 | earthquake | Morocco: Melilla | damage $1 to 5 million |
| 1791 | earthquake | Morocco: Melilla | damage $1 to 5 million |
| 1777 | earthquake | Morocco: Tangier, Sale | damage $5 to 25 million |
| 6 May 1773 | earthquake | Morocco: Tangiers | damage $1 to 5 million |
| 1731 | earthquake | Morocco: Santa Cruz (Agadir) | damage $5 to 25 million |
| 1719 | earthquake | Morocco: Marrakech | damage $5 to 25 million |
| 1660 | earthquake | Morocco: Melilla | damage $1 to 5 million |
| 1624 | earthquake | Morocco: Fes (Fez), Meknes | damage $5 to 25 million |
| 1579 | earthquake | Morocco: Melilla | damage $5 to 25 million |
| 1276 | earthquake | Morocco: El Araish (Larache) | damage $5 to 25 million |
A dash means NOAA recorded no number, not that nobody died. Older entries are fewer because fewer were written down, not because less happened.
Recorded history: NOAA NCEI hazard databases, public domain, retrieved 2026-10-22.
In the last 30 days
The most recent events our feeds placed in Morocco:
- 7 November 2026: M 2.7 - MOROCCO
What the threat reading is made of
| Conflict | 0 |
|---|---|
| Unrest | 0 |
| Security | 0 |
| Spillover from neighbours | 0 |
| Natural hazard | 0 |
| Resilience | 68 |
Each is 0 to 100. Resilience runs the other way to the rest: a high number is a country better able to absorb a shock, not a country in more trouble.
Other countries tracked
Where the data comes from
Energy mix, 2024: Our World in Data, energy dataset (https://github.com/owid/energy-data), compiled by Pablo Rosado, Hannah Ritchie, Edouard Mathieu and Max Roser from the Energy Institute Statistical Review of World Energy, the U.S. Energy Information Administration, Ember and The Shift Dataportal. Licence: Our World in Data's own compilation is CC BY 4.0. The underlying figures stay under their original terms: Energy Institute Statistical Review of World Energy, U.S. EIA, Ember and The Shift Dataportal. The percentages shown here and the wording are ours. Threat reading: computed by Rift Web from the feeds listed on the sources page.