survivors we are talking about it today this is bbc news ukraine live and from london there is evgenia shevska podzavala we are trying to find living people the race against time is what they say about the rescue operation when every hour the chances of finding wholes decrease the earthquake that happened on friday near marrakesh caused significant destruction almost 2,700 people died and the victims may be even more some villages were razed to the ground there has not been such a powerful earthquake in this area for decades the earthquake occurred in the central part of morocco on friday late evening and this is one of the reasons why it is so deadly time late evening the power of the earthquake was a magnitude of 6.8 the epicenter of the earthquake was in the atlas mountains here it is marked 70 km from marrakesh, according to the american geological survey, the shock was at a depth of 18.5 km, that is, a relatively shallow depth, which also increases the scale of the destruction. and this is the moment when the earthquake occurred and komarakeshi people were looking for a place to save them