Panama earthquake: Tsunami warnings issued after magnitude 7.7 quake

Countries including Colombia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Chile person received warnings aft the quake.

A magnitude 7.7 earthquake has deed confederate Panama, triggering tsunami warnings crossed Central and South America.

The US National Weather Service issued tsunami warnings for Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Guatemala connected Friday pursuing the quake.

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Chile’s naval Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service besides issued a tsunami warning.

The US Geological Survey said the earthquake was centred astir 10km (6 miles) southwest of the distant assemblage of Pitaloza Arriba on the Pacific Ocean coast.

Residents of Panama City reported feeling tremors, with buildings shaking and radical evacuating into the streets.

“We felt it precise strongly. It knocked things implicit successful the kitchen, but we’re okay, though we’re precise scared,” 60-year-old Rosendo Dominguez, who is from Herrera province, wherever the earthquake struck, told The Associated Press quality bureau by phone.

“Everyone is outside, scared,” Dominguez added.

A magnitude 7.7. earthquake has deed Panama [Al Jazeera]

Videos shared by paper La Prensa showed the operation of a historical gathering had collapsed on with respective balconies of a residential gathering successful Penonome, a metropolis astir halfway betwixt the epicenter and Panama City.

Panama’s ministry of ⁠education ordered schools closed, portion President Jose Raul Mulino called for calm

“What happened should not beryllium utilized to origin alarm oregon disorder,” helium wrote connected X.

There person been respective destructive earthquakes successful the portion this year.

In June, duplicate quakes deed bluish Venezuela, causing wide devastation and sidesplitting astatine slightest 6,500 people.

In August, a magnitude 7.4 earthquake deed Colombia, sidesplitting astatine slightest 289 people.