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.

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:&#x2F;&#x2F;earthquake.usgs.gov&#x2F;earthquakes&#x2F;eventpage&#x2F;us6000u18k&#x2F;pager" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;earthquake.usgs.gov&#x2F;earthquakes&#x2F;eventpage&#x2F;us6000u18k...</a>

Looks like it was centered away from densely populated areas. Still pretty big.

Still early, but so far local news does not look especially bad:<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.telemetro.com&#x2F;nacionales&#x2F;asi-se-vivio-el-fuerte-sismo-magnitud-70-que-sacudio-panama-imagenes-del-momento-n6094625" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.telemetro.com&#x2F;nacionales&#x2F;asi-se-vivio-el-fuerte-...</a>

I&#x27;m in Panama City and felt the shake. Wasn&#x27;t too bad. Entire building got out. Seems fine now, no apparent damages as of yet

&quot;THERE IS NO LONGER A TSUNAMI THREAT FROM THIS EARTHQUAKE.&quot; from tsunami.gov&#x27;s last report 2min ago

There was a M4.0 in the Dominican Republic earlier in the week.<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;earthquake.usgs.gov&#x2F;earthquakes&#x2F;eventpage&#x2F;pr2026277001&#x2F;executive" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;earthquake.usgs.gov&#x2F;earthquakes&#x2F;eventpage&#x2F;pr20262770...</a>

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

Given the distance, probably comfortably within canal design tolerances.<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;earthquake.usgs.gov&#x2F;earthquakes&#x2F;eventpage&#x2F;us6000u18k&#x2F;map?dyfi-responses-10km=true&amp;shakemap-intensity=false" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;earthquake.usgs.gov&#x2F;earthquakes&#x2F;eventpage&#x2F;us6000u18k...</a>

Doing a 30 second visual check; everything looks normal.<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;multimedia.panama-canal.com&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;multimedia.panama-canal.com&#x2F;index.html</a>

It&#x27;s not called the Pacific Ring Of Fire for nothing. There&#x27;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.

remember that other day Venezuela had a terrible earthquake

Yes. This quake was pretty far from the locks tho.

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

Am I ignorant or that’s not that bad?

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

does this cause blockage in the canal ?

&quot;Did You Feel It?&quot; (on the same page)<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;earthquake.usgs.gov&#x2F;earthquakes&#x2F;eventpage&#x2F;us6000u18k&#x2F;dyfi&#x2F;intensity" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;earthquake.usgs.gov&#x2F;earthquakes&#x2F;eventpage&#x2F;us6000u18k...</a>

A community-based Did You Feel It score of IX.Scale is 1 to 12. This is a 9.

&gt; DYFI IXWanna tell us common folks what that means?

DYFI IX -- I think this is pretty bad.

M7.6 Earthquake in Panama