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.
Looks like it was centered away from densely populated areas. Still pretty big.
_Bruno42 2 hours ago [-]
"THERE IS NO LONGER A TSUNAMI THREAT FROM THIS EARTHQUAKE." from tsunami.gov's last report 2min ago
rumbledownunda 27 minutes 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.
includenotfound 2 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
lsllc 1 hours ago [-]
There was a M4.0 in the Dominican Republic earlier in the week.
remember that other day Venezuela had a terrible earthquake
klardotsh 2 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.
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.
2 hours ago [-]
wang_li 3 hours ago [-]
Wonder if there could ever be enough damage resulting in the lake draining because the locks failed?
uberduper 2 hours ago [-]
Yes. This quake was pretty far from the locks tho.
codruterdei 3 hours ago [-]
Is there a tsunami risk?
david927 3 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."
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...
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.