Ronaldo's hotel offers shelter to Morocco earthquake victims

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Cristiano Ronaldo’s Morocco hotel has become a refuge site for survivors of the large earthquake at the weekend in Morocco

The seismic shock measured 6.8 magnitude on the Richter Scale, which measures the power of earthquakes, and has left over 800 dead and a further 650 wounded.

As a result, people have taken to any buildings that they can to find shelter following the natural disaster, including Ronaldo’s hotel.

The Pestana CR7 Marrakech is graded at four stars, just below luxury and includes an outdoor pool, fitness centre, restaurant, and terrace.

But as Moroccans come together to attempt to find recover, the hotel has set aside its up-market qualities, Marca reports.

The hotels the same. We had to come to the new area of Marrakech, where there are more luxury hotels, so to speak,” Irene Seixas, a Spanish national, said to channel 24h.

“Now we have managed to get Cristiano Ronaldo’s hotel, which is on the outskirts, to give us a room.

“We are waiting. We have slept all night on the street and at seven in the morning they told us that yes, we could approach.

“We are in a lobby a lot of people of different nationalities, waiting to see if we can get a room, but we have all slept on the street.”

As earlier indicated, the earthquake that hit Morocco scales at 6.8, placing it in the ‘strong’ category, marginally missing out on the ‘major’ group.

The most powerful earthquake ever recorded happened in Chile in 1960, and scaled at 9.6 causing an estimated $7.9 billion (USD) worth of damage.