On Sept. 8, 2023, Montserrat Villaverde was staying in the small Moroccan town of Tabant, a mud and adobe village in the Aït Bougemez valley that sits at an altitude of 2,527 meters (8290 feet) in the High Atlas mountain range. At 10:11 p.m., Villaverde was texting on her phone, under the overwhelming celestial vault that embraces one of the places with the least light pollution in the Mediterranean. A low rumble suddenly shook the foundations of the five-story building and the earth began to shake with an unknown force: a magnitude 6.8 earthquake — the most devastating in the Morocco’s modern…