- Videos showing the collapse of buildings in Casablanca are circulating on social networks. FALSE.
These are old videos of the collapse of dilapidated residential dwellings (collapse of a house in Derb Moulay Cherif, Casablanca, on the night of Monday December 26 to Tuesday December 27, 2022).
- Photos of ruined port infrastructure and overturned ships are circulating on the web. FALSE.
These are photos of foreign port facilities and of previous natural disasters in other countries. (Earthquake on the Pacific coast of Tōhoku, Japan, 2011).
- Tweets posted by a foreign media outlet report that "victims of the Al Haouz earthquake were lying on the floor at the entrance to a hospital waiting for their turn because there were no more places in the treatment rooms". FALSE.
Marrakech Regional Health Director Abdelhakim Moustaid told MAP that Marrakech's hospitals are "running at full capacity and continuing to receive the injured". These facilities, he added, have not yet reached saturation point, and we still have the capacity to receive further casualties. We have the support of all those involved, including the local authorities.”
- A widely circulated image of the city of Marrakech showing cement barricades erected in certain neighborhoods following the Al Haouz earthquake. FALSE.
This photo was first published on September 06, two days before the earthquake.
- Several posts on social networks claim that no rescue or assistance operations have been carried out in Ouahat Sidi Brahim, a rural commune in the Marrakech region. FALSE.
The local authorities said that everything necessary has been done since the earthquake struck, that rescue operations are continuing and that a rescue plan has been put in place.
- Images circulating on social networks report collapsed homes in Rabat. FALSE.
These are photos of collapsed houses in Marrakech, accompanied by false captions. Local authorities confirm to MAP that no partial or total collapse has taken place in the capital.