Cities around the world keep their histories on dates. Here is what happened on February 29 across the 2 editorial events Pyflo has so far catalogued for this date.
was one of the deadliest earthquakes in Moroccan history — a magnitude 5.7 quake struck at 23:40 local time, killing approximately 15,000 people (about a third of the city's population) in less than 15 seconds; about 70% of the city was destroyed.
The February 29, 1960 Agadir earthquake is one of the unusually instructive natural disasters of the 20th century, both because of what it taught seismologists about shallow-focus earthquakes and because of what the rebuilding decisions taught urban planners.
Drawn from the Pyflo Atlas — an interactive timeline of 1,601 editorial events reaching back to 2100 BCE, each pin a deep link into a city's full story. Watch history play out on the map →