M7.6 Earthquake in Panama

105 points by gslin 3 hours ago on hackernews | 33 comments

does this cause blockage in the canal ?

: ahnick | 3 hours ago
Sit on a prop desk?

Is there a tsunami risk?

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

codruterdei | 3 hours ago

Am I ignorant or that’s not that bad?

: tantalor | 3 hours ago
Several hundred meters inland, as far as 2km

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.

markus_zhang | 3 hours ago

DYFI IX -- I think this is pretty bad.

ur-whale | 3 hours ago

> DYFI IX

Wanna tell us common folks what that means?

carb | 3 hours ago

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

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

lanyard-textile | 3 hours ago

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

Scale is 1 to 12. This is a 9.

poultron | 3 hours ago

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

devin | 3 hours ago

352, actually.

: DetroitThrow | 2 hours ago
only a single tile in an unpopulated area reported a 9, I think is what he meant.

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-...

: vondur | 3 hours ago
Looks like it was centered away from densely populated areas. Still pretty big.
: CommieBobDole | 3 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...

pluc | 3 hours ago

Well, gas is gonna go up

gadtfly | 3 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 | 3 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?

: 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.
: bell-cot | 59 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...

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 | 2 hours ago

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

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

rumbledownunda | an 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.