M7.6 Earthquake in Panama

(earthquake.usgs.gov)

92 points by gslin2 hours ago

15 comments

stickfigure2 hours ago
Still early, but so far local news does not look especially bad:<a href="https://www.telemetro.com/nacionales/asi-se-vivio-el-fuerte-sismo-magnitud-70-que-sacudio-panama-imagenes-del-momento-n6094625" rel="nofollow">https://www.telemetro.com/nacionales/asi-se-vivio-el-fuerte-...</a>
- CommieBobDole2 hours ago
 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.<a href="https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000u18k/pager" rel="nofollow">https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000u18k...</a>
- vondur2 hours ago
 Looks like it was centered away from densely populated areas. Still pretty big.
rumbledownunda21 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.
_Bruno421 hour ago
"THERE IS NO LONGER A TSUNAMI THREAT FROM THIS EARTHQUAKE." from tsunami.gov's last report 2min ago
includenotfound1 hour 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
lsllc1 hour ago
There was a M4.0 in the Dominican Republic earlier in the week.<a href="https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/pr2026277001/executive" rel="nofollow">https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/pr20262770...</a>
pluc2 hours ago
Well, gas is gonna go up
- gadtfly2 hours ago
 Given the distance, probably comfortably within canal design tolerances.<a href="https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000u18k/map?dyfi-responses-10km=true&shakemap-intensity=false" rel="nofollow">https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000u18k...</a>
 - gramie1 hour ago
 I think the idea is that anything that happens will make gas prices go up.
 - gadtfly1 hour ago
 I think the marginal contribution of this event to that will be low.
 - antonymoose1 hour ago
 Ok but is this good for Bitcoin?
- 1970-01-011 hour ago
 Doing a 30 second visual check; everything looks normal.<a href="https://multimedia.panama-canal.com/index.html" rel="nofollow">https://multimedia.panama-canal.com/index.html</a>
neves2 hours ago
remember that other day Venezuela had a terrible earthquake
- klardotsh1 hour 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.
  - fritzo1 hour ago
    Isn't Venezuela on the Atlantic?
    - stackghost1 hour 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.
wang_li2 hours ago
Wonder if there could ever be enough damage resulting in the lake draining because the locks failed?
- uberduper2 hours ago
  Yes. This quake was pretty far from the locks tho.
codruterdei2 hours ago
Is there a tsunami risk?
- david9272 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."
  - codruterdei2 hours ago
    Am I ignorant or that’s not that bad?
    - tantalor2 hours ago
      Several hundred meters inland, as far as 2km
ycui72 hours ago
does this cause blockage in the canal ?
- ahnick2 hours ago
  Sit on a prop desk?
markus_zhang2 hours ago
DYFI IX -- I think this is pretty bad.
- ur-whale2 hours ago
 > DYFI IXWanna tell us common folks what that means?
 - carb2 hours ago
 "Did You Feel It?" (on the same page)<a href="https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000u18k/dyfi/intensity" rel="nofollow">https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000u18k...</a>
 - lanyard-textile2 hours ago
 A community-based Did You Feel It score of IX.Scale is 1 to 12. This is a 9.
 - poultron2 hours ago
 Sample size of.... 1 response...
 - devin2 hours ago
 352, actually.
 DetroitThrow1 hour ago
 only a single tile in an unpopulated area reported a 9, I think is what he meant.
ls-a1 hour ago
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