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M7.6 Earthquake in Panama

76 points gslin 1 hour ago 29 comments

ycui7 1 hour ago | parent

does this cause blockage in the canal ?

ahnick 55 minutes ago | parent

Sit on a prop desk?

codruterdei 1 hour ago | parent

Is there a tsunami risk?

david927 1 hour 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."

codruterdei 1 hour ago | parent

Am I ignorant or that’s not that bad?

tantalor 52 minutes ago | parent

Several hundred meters inland, as far as 2km

wang_li 1 hour ago | parent

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

uberduper 52 minutes ago | parent

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

markus_zhang 1 hour ago | parent

DYFI IX -- I think this is pretty bad.

ur-whale 1 hour ago | parent

> DYFI IX

Wanna tell us common folks what that means?

carb 1 hour ago | parent

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

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

lanyard-textile 1 hour ago | parent

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

Scale is 1 to 12. This is a 9.

poultron 58 minutes ago | parent

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

devin 56 minutes ago | parent

352, actually.

DetroitThrow 35 minutes ago | parent

only a single tile in an unpopulated area reported a 9, I think is what he meant.

stickfigure 1 hour ago | parent

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

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

vondur 45 minutes ago | parent

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

CommieBobDole 41 minutes ago | parent

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...

pluc 43 minutes ago | parent

Well, gas is gonna go up

gadtfly 40 minutes ago | parent

Given the distance, probably comfortably within canal design tolerances.

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

gramie 35 minutes ago | parent

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

gadtfly 14 minutes ago | parent

I think the marginal contribution of this event to that will be low.

antonymoose 13 minutes ago | parent

Ok but is this good for Bitcoin?

neves 40 minutes ago | parent

remember that other day Venezuela had a terrible earthquake

klardotsh 10 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.

fritzo 6 minutes ago | parent

Isn't Venezuela on the Atlantic?

includenotfound 26 minutes ago | parent

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 6 minutes ago | parent

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