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Posted by gslin 3 hours ago

M7.6 Earthquake in Panama(earthquake.usgs.gov)
105 points | 33 comments
rumbledownunda 1 hour 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 3 hours ago||
Still early, but so far local news does not look especially bad:

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

CommieBobDole 2 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.

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

vondur 2 hours ago||
Looks like it was centered away from densely populated areas. Still pretty big.
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
_Bruno42 2 hours ago||
"THERE IS NO LONGER A TSUNAMI THREAT FROM THIS EARTHQUAKE." from tsunami.gov's last report 2min ago
lsllc 1 hour ago||
There was a M4.0 in the Dominican Republic earlier in the week.

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/pr20262770...

pluc 2 hours ago||
Well, gas is gonna go up
gadtfly 2 hours ago||
Given the distance, probably comfortably within canal design tolerances.

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

gramie 2 hours ago||
I think the idea is that anything that happens will make gas prices go up.
gadtfly 2 hours ago|||
I think the marginal contribution of this event to that will be low.
antonymoose 2 hours ago|||
Ok but is this good for Bitcoin?
1970-01-01 2 hours ago||
Doing a 30 second visual check; everything looks normal.

https://multimedia.panama-canal.com/index.html

neves 2 hours ago||
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.
fritzo 2 hours ago||
Isn't Venezuela on the Atlantic?
bell-cot 49 minutes ago|||
It's mostly on the Caribbean Sea. Which kinda has its own little ring of fire - https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/tectonic/images/cari...
stackghost 2 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.
wang_li 3 hours ago|
Wonder if there could ever be enough damage resulting in the lake draining because the locks failed?
uberduper 3 hours ago|
Yes. This quake was pretty far from the locks tho.
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