Izorane n’Agadir commemorates the 53rd anniversary of the earthquake

It is Monday, 29 February 1960, in Agadir. The city trembles for 15 infernal seconds. The earth growled, a seismic tremor of magnitude 5.7 on the Richter scale, and Agadir is no more. "On 29 February 1960 at 11:40 PM, paradise became hell," testifies Mrs. Kerglonou on the site http://www.agadir1960.com."A dull roar (like a giant bombardment) accompanied by violent oscillations brutally woke the inhabitants; fear in my stomach, I grabbed my baby (aged 1 month) from his cradle to head towards the stairs, it was panic!", she adds."People were screaming, pushing each other, climbing as best they could, in the darkness accentuated by the dust of the buildings that were collapsing, rubble, blocks of plaster that cluttered the stairs. Finally, we managed to reach a vacant lot, on the edge of the road, near our building," she remembers.Cries, howls of the wounded, smell of gas, of sulphur, peop…