[2][4] The Belgian Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters' EM-DAT database and the USGS' National Geophysical Data Center both list financial losses of $60.93 million.

The current seismicity of the Tell Atlas is a result of continuing convergence of 3–6 mm per year between the African and Eurasian plates, in a northwest–southeast direction.

An anticline is developed in the hanging wall (upper block) of the northwest-dipping Tafna Fault known as the Berdani Fold.

[4] Due to the lack of any surface rupture that might constrain the causative fault, this has been investigated using Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR).

In Aïn Témouchent the main hospital, several schools and the post office were amongst the buildings badly damaged.