M7.6 Earthquake in Panama

142 pointsposted 10 hours ago
by gslin
(earthquake.usgs.gov)

36 Comments

rumbledownunda

7 hours ago

I am in the hills just outside of penonome,panama. The initial rumble made the power go out and I could see visible shaking, but not quite enough to damage my house. There are some damaged homes and commercial buildings, but usually the older or poorly co structed ones. We are not used to earthquakes around here. There are still small rumbles happening even right now.

stickfigure

9 hours ago

Still early, but so far local news does not look especially bad:

https://www.telemetro.com/nacionales/asi-se-vivio-el-fuerte-...

vondur

9 hours ago

Looks like it was centered away from densely populated areas. Still pretty big.

includenotfound

9 hours ago

I'm in Panama City and felt the shake. Wasn't too bad. Entire building got out. Seems fine now, no apparent damages as of yet

_Bruno42

8 hours ago

"THERE IS NO LONGER A TSUNAMI THREAT FROM THIS EARTHQUAKE." from tsunami.gov's last report 2min ago

pluc

9 hours ago

Well, gas is gonna go up

gadtfly

9 hours ago

Given the distance, probably comfortably within canal design tolerances.

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000u18k...

gramie

9 hours ago

I think the idea is that anything that happens will make gas prices go up.

lostlogin

2 hours ago

> anything that happens will make gas prices go up.

In that case, let’s attack another major oil exporter.

gadtfly

9 hours ago

I think the marginal contribution of this event to that will be low.

anothereng

4 hours ago

it was felt in Panama city, panama. Weve never had so many earthquakes in a lifetime perhaps a century

markus_zhang

9 hours ago

DYFI IX -- I think this is pretty bad.

wang_li

10 hours ago

Wonder if there could ever be enough damage resulting in the lake draining because the locks failed?

uberduper

9 hours ago

Yes. This quake was pretty far from the locks tho.

codruterdei

10 hours ago

Is there a tsunami risk?

david927

9 hours ago

"Tsunami surges of 1 to 3 meters are projected for Panama coastlines, with waves of 0.3 to 1 meter forecast for Ecuador."

codruterdei

9 hours ago

Am I ignorant or that’s not that bad?

tantalor

9 hours ago

Several hundred meters inland, as far as 2km

neves

9 hours ago

remember that other day Venezuela had a terrible earthquake

klardotsh

9 hours ago

It's not called the Pacific Ring Of Fire for nothing. There's earthquakes all up and down the coast, from Chile all the way to Alaska and wrapping around to the Asian coasts, all the time.

fritzo

8 hours ago

Isn't Venezuela on the Atlantic?

stackghost

8 hours ago

It is, but there's a subduction zone just off their northern coast following the curve of the Lesser Antilles so I could see how someone might mistakenly lump it into the pacific ring. It's not that far away from the northern Andes, in the grand scheme of things.

ycui7

10 hours ago

does this cause blockage in the canal ?

ahnick

9 hours ago

Sit on a prop desk?