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 10 hours ago [-]
Still early, but so far local news does not look especially bad:
Looking at the PAGER info, it looks like it was pretty far from the largest cities and only affected them, and Panama City in particular, minimally, which will limit the impact quite a bit.
only a single tile in an unpopulated area reported a 9, I think is what he meant.
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wang_li 10 hours ago [-]
Wonder if there could ever be enough damage resulting in the lake draining because the locks failed?
uberduper 10 hours ago [-]
Yes. This quake was pretty far from the locks tho.
codruterdei 10 hours ago [-]
Is there a tsunami risk?
david927 10 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 10 hours ago [-]
Am I ignorant or that’s not that bad?
tantalor 10 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 9 hours ago [-]
Isn't Venezuela on the Atlantic?
stackghost 9 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.
https://www.telemetro.com/nacionales/asi-se-vivio-el-fuerte-...
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000u18k...
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/pr20262770...
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000u18k...
In that case, let’s attack another major oil exporter.
https://multimedia.panama-canal.com/index.html
Wanna tell us common folks what that means?
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000u18k...
Scale is 1 to 12. This is a 9.