In Morocco's Atlas Mountains, survivors of the quake take stock of all they've lost

Brother and sister Boujemaa and Aicha Ounasser return home to their birthplace in the Atlas Mountains on Sept. 12 to view the rubble of the devastating earthquake in Tnirte, Morocco. (Carol Guzy for NPR)

ATLAS MOUNTAINS, Morocco — Boujemaa and Aicha Ounasser are going home to their birthplace in the Atlas Mountains — to see whether anything is left of it.

The brother and sister survived the Sept. 8 earthquake. They live in different cities, where they felt only tremors. But they grew up in Tnirte, a mountain village near the epicenter. They hadn't been back in six years.