rumbledownundaan 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.
stickfigure3 hours ago
Still early, but so far local news does not look especially bad:
https://www.telemetro.com/nacionales/asi-se-vivio-el-fuerte-...
CommieBobDole3 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...
vondur3 hours ago
Looks like it was centered away from densely populated areas. Still pretty big.
includenotfound2 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
_Bruno422 hours ago
"THERE IS NO LONGER A TSUNAMI THREAT FROM THIS EARTHQUAKE." from tsunami.gov's last report 2min ago
lsllc2 hours ago
There was a M4.0 in the Dominican Republic earlier in the week.
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/pr20262770...
pluc3 hours ago
Well, gas is gonna go up
gadtfly3 hours ago
Given the distance, probably comfortably within canal design tolerances.
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000u18k...
gramie2 hours ago
I think the idea is that anything that happens will make gas prices go up.
gadtfly2 hours ago
I think the marginal contribution of this event to that will be low.
antonymoose2 hours ago
Ok but is this good for Bitcoin?
1970-01-012 hours ago
Doing a 30 second visual check; everything looks normal.
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neves3 hours ago
remember that other day Venezuela had a terrible earthquake
klardotsh2 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.
fritzo2 hours ago
Isn't Venezuela on the Atlantic?
bell-cot30 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...
stackghost2 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.
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wang_li3 hours ago
Wonder if there could ever be enough damage resulting in the lake draining because the locks failed?
uberduper3 hours ago
Yes. This quake was pretty far from the locks tho.
codruterdei3 hours ago
Is there a tsunami risk?
david9273 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."
codruterdei3 hours ago
Am I ignorant or that’s not that bad?
tantalor3 hours ago
Several hundred meters inland, as far as 2km
ycui73 hours ago
does this cause blockage in the canal ?
ahnick3 hours ago
Sit on a prop desk?
markus_zhang3 hours ago
DYFI IX -- I think this is pretty bad.
ur-whale3 hours ago
> DYFI IX
Wanna tell us common folks what that means?
carb3 hours ago
"Did You Feel It?" (on the same page)
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000u18k...
lanyard-textile3 hours ago
A community-based Did You Feel It score of IX.
Scale is 1 to 12. This is a 9.
poultron3 hours ago
Sample size of.... 1 response...
devin3 hours ago
352, actually.
DetroitThrow2 hours ago
only a single tile in an unpopulated area reported a 9, I think is what he meant.
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