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STORY: With many homes fashioned out of mud bricks and timber or cement and breeze blocks, in an area not accustomed to powerful earthquakes, structures crumbled easily in mounds of debris when the quake struck, without creating the pockets of air that earthquake-ready concrete buildings can provide.

These homes, sometimes hundreds of years old, sometimes built more recently, can be found across the mountain, and have long been a popular sight for tourists traveling from Marrakech.

Morocco's most powerful earthquake since at least 1900 has killed at least 2,497 people, the state news agency said in its latest update of the human toll on Monday (September 11), with thousands more injured and many still missing.