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Hi Carolyn.
Could be a difficult one without spending money. Given northern Maroc is an earthquake prone country, buildings, especially 2 stories and more, need to be well designed and built to resist this. So reinforced concrete columns and beams, and possibly further vertical and horizontal reinforcing in the walls. Old style houses with metre thick walls - same as I live in in southern Spain - are quite good for tremors, as they tend to move and then settle again, but in any real quake or heavy rain & wind, if the walls don't have an external waterproof plaster, are vulnerable and prone to collapse.
What are local building codes? Any new-build should conform to these as a minimum.
Cheers, Gavin