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Agadir Earthquake - Part 1: A city’s promise—and its vulnerability—before the night everything changed.
Agadir was not meant to vanish. Yet beneath the calm of its streets and the confidence of its new buildings, a hidden danger waited—one that would turn ordinary life into disaster in less than a minute. In the late nineteen fifties, Agadir leaned into the Atlantic as both a port and a resort town—a symbol of Morocco’s future after independence. The city grew quickly, its modern quarter expanding under the watchful eye of the old kasbah on the hill.
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