ESSAOUIRA SOUKS

The souk is a marketplace for the necessities in the region and also a meeting point with economic as well as social benefits especially in the rural districts

Locally produced vegetables, olive and argan oil, fruits, cereals, herbs and honey. Living animals like cows, camels, donkeys, sheap, goat, chicken, birds are for sale as well as animalproducts as milk, eggs and meat slaughtered in the morning. If you are looking for anything to buy you find it in the souk.

In the medina there are souks of different characters. There are souks for spices, cloths, meat, fish, cereals, jewelery, etc. with a lot of similar shops.

Weekly markets in nearby villages

Essaouira 1961 الصويرة سنة

Souk Had draa and Essaouira Medina Souk Jdid

Markets and Souks in Essaouira Mogador

Old pictures

External links in French

Les souks au Maroc (Dafina.net)

Le Maroc des marchands ambulants

ESSAOUIRA GEOLOGY

EARTHQUAKES

   The most famous disaster for Mogador was the earthquake1st of November 1755, Lisbon ( Magnitude 9) and the following Tsunami with 15 m high waves who destroyed parts of the towns at the Moroccan Atlantic coast including Mogador.

Old map of seismic activities in the Essaouira region.

2 Mars 2009
Sidi Kaouki Magnitude 4,6
(Institut national de Geophysique)

Source: https://static1.emsc.eu/Images/FELTREPORTS/97/974195/IntensityMap.png

 Agadir earthquake

took place on February 29, 1960, at 23:40 local time. 

It was the most destructive and deadliest earthquake in Moroccan history with a magnitude of 5.7 Mw, killing around 15,000 people (about a third of the city's population of the time) and wounding another 12,000. At least 35,000 people were left homeless. 

Pictures from the earthquake (External link)

Despite its moderate magnitude, the earthquake's shallow focus

and proximity to the major city of Agadir made it very destructive.

Tectonic map of northwesternmost Africa showing the northern part of the West African Craton (WAC) and the adjoining fold belts (Michard et al . 2008).

Resources

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264545014_Seismicity_and_Seismic_Hazard_in_Morocco_1901-2010

https://www.yabiladi.com/articles/details/73759/histoire-comment-maroc-impacte-seisme.html?utm_source=rss_yabiladi

https://www.bladi.net/qaida-daech-seisme-maroc-est-punition-divine,104246.html 

https://www.bladi.net/institut-national-geophysique.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_Agadir_earthquake

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_Morocco

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1755_Lisbon_earthquake