Economy and Canal ·
Earthquake off the Azuero Peninsula: no deaths, minor damage in the capital
Around noon on 9 October a strong earthquake of magnitude about 7.5 struck off the Azuero Peninsula. Seismological services in different countries put it between 7.5 and 7.7. The epicentre was roughly 39 km north-west of Tonosí, in a sparsely populated part of the peninsula.
According to the civil protection service SINAPROC, nobody died and the injured suffered only light injuries. Most of the damage is in the provinces of Herrera, Los Santos, Veraguas and Coclé: churches, schools, individual houses. In Panama City four residential buildings sustained minor damage; hospitals were evacuated temporarily as a precaution. In the first twenty-four hours the Institute of Geosciences registered at least 161 aftershocks.
Sources
- SINAPROC — La Web de la Salud · in Spanish
- Instituto de Geociencias — Infobae · in Spanish
Retold by the PanaVera editorial team. Not legal advice.