Between 12,000 and 15,000 people (about a third of the city's population of the time) were killed and another 12,000 injured with at least 35,000 people left homeless, making it the most destructive and deadliest earthquake in Moroccan history.
Between 12,000 and 15,000 people (approximately one-third of the city's population at that time) were killed and another 12,000 injured with at least 35,000 left without homes, making it the most devastating and lethal earthquake in Moroccan history.