M7.6 Earthquake in Panama

_Bruno42 38 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

"THERE IS NO LONGER A TSUNAMI THREAT FROM THIS EARTHQUAKE." from tsunami.gov's last report 2min ago

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lsllc 19 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There was a M4.0 in the Dominican Republic earlier in the week.

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

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stickfigure 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Still early, but so far local news does not look especially bad:

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

	▲	CommieBobDole an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		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 an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Looks like it was centered away from densely populated areas. Still pretty big.

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includenotfound an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

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neves an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

remember that other day Venezuela had a terrible earthquake

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klardotsh 42 minutes ago | parent [-]

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.

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fritzo 38 minutes ago | parent [-]

Isn't Venezuela on the Atlantic?

	▲	stackghost 24 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		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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markus_zhang 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

DYFI IX -- I think this is pretty bad.

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ur-whale 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> DYFI IX

Wanna tell us common folks what that means?

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carb 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

"Did You Feel It?" (on the same page)

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

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lanyard-textile 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

A community-based Did You Feel It score of IX.

Scale is 1 to 12. This is a 9.

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poultron an hour ago | parent [-]

Sample size of.... 1 response...

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devin an hour ago | parent [-]

352, actually.

	▲	DetroitThrow an hour ago \| parent [-]
		only a single tile in an unpopulated area reported a 9, I think is what he meant.

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pluc an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Well, gas is gonna go up

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gadtfly an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Given the distance, probably comfortably within canal design tolerances.

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

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gramie an hour ago | parent [-]

I think the idea is that anything that happens will make gas prices go up.

	▲	gadtfly an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I think the marginal contribution of this event to that will be low.
	▲	antonymoose an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Ok but is this good for Bitcoin?

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1970-01-01 34 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Doing a 30 second visual check; everything looks normal.

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

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codruterdei 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Is there a tsunami risk?

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david927 2 hours ago | parent [-]

"Tsunami surges of 1 to 3 meters are projected for Panama coastlines, with waves of 0.3 to 1 meter forecast for Ecuador."

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codruterdei 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Am I ignorant or that’s not that bad?

	▲	tantalor an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Several hundred meters inland, as far as 2km

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ycui7 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

does this cause blockage in the canal ?

	▲	ahnick an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Sit on a prop desk?

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wang_li 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Wonder if there could ever be enough damage resulting in the lake draining because the locks failed?

	▲	uberduper an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Yes. This quake was pretty far from the locks tho.