{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"Agadir Earthquake","description":"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.\r\n\r\nIn 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. French colonial planning left a neat grid: civic buildings, hotels, military barracks, and shops. Moroccan life filled the gaps—markets, family compounds, cafés. Each day, Agadir looked more modern, more ambitious, more permanent. But the visible order was new, and it was fragile.\r\n\r\nAurelius and Malik take on this case in full — 5 chapters, 34 minutes, one complete story.\r\n\r\nLearn more at: https://thedisasterarchive.com/disaster/agadir-earthquake","author_name":"The Archive Network"}