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Rabat [Morocco], September 12 (ANI): The death toll in the <keyword id="18710486" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Morocco-earthquake" source="Orion">Morocco earthquake</keyword> has passed 2800 after a powerful 6.8 earthquake hit the country on Friday last week, <keyword id="148173" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="al-jazeera" source="Orion">Al Jazeera</keyword> reported. The rescue operation is still underway in the country in order to find the survivors. Search and rescue teams from Spain, the United Kingdom, and Qatar have joined Moroccan rescue efforts after a magnitude 6.8 earthquake slammed the High Atlas Mountains late Friday, with the epicentre 72 kilometres (45 miles) southwest of <keyword id="30548" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="marrakesh" source="Orion">Marrakesh</keyword>, according to Al Jazeera. According to state television, the death toll has grown to 2,862, with 2,562 people injured. The traditional mud brick buildings that were common in the area, according to rescuers, limited the odds of locating survivors because they had disintegrated. Nearly every building in the mountain village of Tafeghaghte, which is 60 kilometres (37 miles) from Marrakesh, has been destroyed due to the quake. Both survivors and the bodies of the deceased were sought by civilian rescuers and Moroccan military personnel. Earlier on Saturday, Prime Minister <keyword id="6354477" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="narendra-modi" source="Orion">Narendra Modi</keyword> expressed grief over the loss of lives in the quake. Taking to X, PM Modi said, "Extremely pained by the loss of lives due to an earthquake in <keyword id="10331" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="morocco" source="Orion">Morocco</keyword>. In this tragic hour, my thoughts are with the people of Morocco. Condolences to those who have lost their loved ones. May the injured recover at the earliest. India is ready to offer all possible assistance to Morocco in this difficult time." The earthquake took place at 03:41:01 (UTC+05:30) at a depth of 18.5 km. The magnitude of the earthquake caused pulses to travel from Sidi Ifni in the south to Rabat in the north and beyond. (ANI)

Morocco quake death toll passes 2800, rescue operation underway

<ul class="summary-list"><li>The search for the Titan submersible, led by the US Coast Guard, may have cost millions.</li><li>The Coast Guard does not charge for its search and rescue efforts, even for wealthy individuals.</li></ul>During the multi-day search effort for the <a href="https://www.insider.com/passengers-titan-submersible-dead-oceangate-titanic-2023-6">Titan submersible</a> that likely <a href="https://www.insider.com/titanic-sub-rescue-may-cost-millions-oceangate-unlikely-pay-2023-6">cost millions of dollars</a>, many wondered who exactly would be footing the bill, especially given the $250,000 price tag OceanGate Expeditions charged its <a href="https://www.insider.com/titanic-sub-passengers-missing-passengers-whos-on-board-oceangate-submersible-2023-6">wealthy passengers</a> for the voyage.But when it comes to the US Coast Guard, the agency that was leading the search, they don't charge for <a href="https://www.insider.com/missing-titanic-tourist-sub-everything-we-know-so-far-2023-6">search and rescue operations</a> regardless of who needs saving. Doing so could cause some people to avoid or delay calling for a rescue when they actually need one out of fear they won't be able to afford it."At the end of the day, the Coast Guard does not charge people who are in distress for the search and rescue costs," Peter Boynton, a retired Coast Guard officer and affiliated faculty with the Global Resilience Institute, told Insider.Boynton served in the <a href="https://www.insider.com/titan-sub-likely-used-96-hours-oxygen-prospects-bleak-2023-6">Coast Guard</a> for decades and led or participated in many search and rescue operations. He said the Coast Guard is frugal in how it spends the taxpayers' dollars and that cost-effectiveness is part of the agency's mindset, but that in a life-or-death situation, they do not want to deal with questions of who's paying."They won't tolerate a response to distress being delayed or limited while trying to sort out who's going to pay," he said.He noted the <a href="https://www.insider.com/what-happens-when-submersible-submarine-implodes-2023-6">dangers</a> that can come with being at sea, including to the rescuers, and said that "artificial delays" caused by figuring out payment could cause a rescue effort to become riskier and "less effective."<h2>Search and Rescue is part of the Coast Guard's DNA</h2>Search and rescue is also just a major part of what the Coast Guard does."Search and Rescue (SAR) is one of the Coast Guard's oldest missions," the <a href="https://www.dco.uscg.mil/Our-Organization/Assistant-Commandant-for-Response-Policy-CG-5R/Office-of-Incident-Management-Preparedness-CG-5RI/US-Coast-Guard-Office-of-Search-and-Rescue-CG-SAR/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Coast Guard</a> says on its website. "Minimizing the loss of life, injury, property damage or loss by rendering aid to persons in distress and property in the maritime environment has always been a Coast Guard priority."Boynton said that mission is what attracts many people to the Coast Guard."It's part of the DNA. That's why you go into the Coast Guard," he said. "You only have to pull one person out of the water who would've died, and you never forget that."SAR missions are also built into the operating budget of the Coast Guard, and sometimes that includes extremely costly operations, such as the Titan mission.Boynton said that the Coast Guard has gotten very effective over the years at collaborating with other agencies, including state and sometimes local, as well as international partners and private entities, but does not reimburse them for joining a search effort."Everyone knows if you join the effort, the Coast Guard is not going to reimburse you," he said, noting that those groups will join a search anyways.Prior to about 30 years ago, the Coast Guard would often respond to even small calls for rescues, such as a boat that's run of out gas or had fishing net caught in its gear, Boynton said. But in the late 80s and 90s, the Coast Guard stopped responding to simple requests like that close to shore. The thinking was that not only was the Coast Guard not needed in those scenarios, but they were also unfairly competing with commercial operations.As a result of that change in protocol, the Coast Guard was able to focus its time and money on SAR situations in which the agency's resources were actually needed, and private towing services were able to step in for the rest.As for situations in which the party that needs rescuing has acted extremely recklessly, it may be possible for the Coast Guard to bill them the costs of the operation, but Boynton said he could not think of an example of that happening in his 28 years of service.One exception would be in the case where a person is found to have made a false distress call for a rescue, in which case they could potentially be criminally charged, sentenced to prison time, fined a quarter of a million dollars, and billed for the SAR operation. As for why wealthy individuals are not treated any differently when it comes to billing, Boynton pointed to a more familiar example. If a fire department puts out a fire in a wealthy neighborhood, the rich family is not expected to pay for their services.Boynton emphasized that for the Coast Guard, it comes down to their priority of safety of life at sea.<h2>It's becoming more common for states to charge for land-based rescues</h2>Other than the Coast Guard, in most places hikers or climbers who need to be rescued outdoors are also not responsible for the costs. The <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/22/us/titanic-submersible-search-rescue-costs.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Park Service</a>, for instance, does not charge visitors who need to be rescued.However, several states have passed legislation that allows them to bill the subjects of search and rescue operations in some cases.In New Hampshire, hikers who call in a rescue and are found to have acted recklessly can be charged with the bill. One family who called for help after setting out on a 7-mile hike with two children at 11 p.m. were billed by the state, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/06/us/rescue-hikers-cost.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a>.Similar laws are on the books in Hawaii, Idaho, Maine, Oregon, and Vermont, all with the intention of discouraging careless behavior in the outdoors.

Why the Coast Guard doesn't charge for search and rescue operations &mdash; even in cases like the Titan submersible's and its ultra-wealthy passengers

<ul class="summary-list"><li>The US Coast Guard fielded questions on the cost of its efforts to rescue the Titan submersible.</li><li>The rescue efforts, which included multiple vessels and aircraft, are estimated to cost millions.</li></ul>In response to mounting questions about how much the search-and-rescue mission for the Titan submersible is set to cost taxpayers, a top official said Sunday that the US Coast Guard would not "associate a cost with human life."Rear Admiral John Mauger told reporters that it would be illegal to charge people for the cost of rescuing them."As a matter of US law and Coast Guard policy, the Coast Guard doesn't charge for search and rescue," Mauger said. "We always answer the call."The <a href="https://www.insider.com/titanic-sub-rescue-may-cost-millions-oceangate-unlikely-pay-2023-6">value of the extensive search-and-rescue efforts</a> has been hotly debated in the wake of the submersible's implosion, particularly given the immense wealth of its passengers. OceanGate charged its passengers $250,000 apiece to board the Titan submersible, which has been <a href="https://www.insider.com/titanic-titan-sub-5-key-mistakes-lead-up-catastrophic-implosion-2023-6">criticized for lacking certifications and safety features</a>.The Titan was launched into the Atlantic Ocean roughly 400 miles off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada, on June 18. Its mission was to ferry passengers 12,500 feet down to the shipwreck of the Titanic. But the vessel went missing after nearly two hours, launching a multinational effort to rescue the five passengers.Vessels from the US, Canada, France, and the UK arrived to scour the ocean's surface and searched an area twice the size of Connecticut. US and Canadian military officials also sent <a href="https://www.insider.com/military-submarine-hunting-aircraft-searched-for-missing-titanic-submersible-2023-6">multiple aircraft to the scene</a> and deployed sonar buoys to detect underwater noise up to 13,000 feet deep.Finally, after <a href="https://www.insider.com/the-titan-submermsible-catastrophic-implosion-rescue-effort-years-in-making-2023-6">four days of rescue efforts</a>, a Remotely Operated Vehicle discovered debris from the Titan on the seafloor, some 1,600 feet from the Titanic's bow.Officials said the debris was consistent with a "catastrophic implosion of the vessel." All five passengers are presumed dead.On Sunday, Mauger said the US Coast Guard often rescued people who put their own lives at risk — including people who entered the water with inadequate safety gear, inadequate training, or even while intoxicated."The ocean remains an unforgiving environment, and every weekend there are risks… But we still answer the call," Mauger said. "We conduct disciplined operations with warranted risk to put our resources and our lives at risk to save others. That's who we are."It's unclear how much was spent on the dayslong effort to locate the Titan. The US Coast Guard has launched an <a href="https://www.insider.com/recovering-titan-sub-debris-is-priority-for-coast-guard-investigation-2023-6">investigation into the submersible's implosion</a>, which an official told reporters on Sunday could result in civil or criminal sanctions.Editor's note: An earlier version of this story misstated the day of the press conference. It was on Sunday, not Saturday.

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