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The Independent
· collected 2026-10-09 · by Mrinmay Dey and Elida Moreno
A 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck off the southern coast of Panama on Friday at a depth of 12.6 kilometers, causing damage to buildings and prompting tsunami warnings in nine countries including Panama, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Peru, Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Mexico. The quake's epicenter was near La Pitaloza in Herrera province, close to the Pacific coastline, where residents reported cracked homes and aftershocks. Schools were closed nationwide, and the Panama City Metro temporarily halted service for safety inspections.
Written locally by qwen2.5:14b on 2026-10-09,
using this article's own text rather than the other coverage of the
same event (that is the story summary below).
Story summary
On October 9, a 7.6-magnitude earthquake hit near the southern coast of Panama, centered approximately 10 km southwest of the remote community of Pitaloza Arriba. The tremors were felt strongly in Panama City and other parts of Central America, causing buildings to shake and prompting evacuations from schools and homes. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) reported that hazardous tsunami waves could impact the coasts of Panama, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Peru, Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador, Mexico, and potentially Hawaii over the next three hours. Despite initial concerns, no significant damage or casualties were immediately reported in Panama.
Written for “Panama Earthquake Tsunami Warnings” on 2026-10-09,
grounded in this article and the 11 other(s) covering the same event.
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A 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck off the southern coast of Panama on Friday at a depth of 12.6km (7.8 miles), the US Geological Survey said.
Some buildings were damaged, but the critical Panama Canal trade waterway was not affected.
Earthquakes of this strength are rare in Panama.
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Earthquakes → log → Panama
Broadcast footage showed elderly residents weeping in the streets as a series of weaker aftershocks rattled the nation.
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series → show → nation
“We’re scared.
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We → ’re → ?
It’s just the two of us old folks here.
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It → ’ → folks
The house has cracked, and we’re afraid it could fall on us,” said Ricardo Brown, 74, speaking by phone from the Las Minas area in Herrera province in southern Panama, where he noted the quake damaged a number of homes.
uncertain
quake → crack → homes
Shaking was also felt as far as San Jose, the capital of neighboring Costa Rica, according to a Reuters witness.
uncertain
Shaking → feel → witness
Omar Smith, who heads Panama's civil protection agency, told local outlet Telemetro Reporta that impacts had been reported in Chitre, the capital of Herrera, and along the coast in Los Santos province.
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impacts → head → province
“We felt it very strongly.
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We → feel → it
It knocked things over in the kitchen, but we’re okay, though we’re very scared," Rosendo Domínguez, 60, who is from Herrera province, where the earthquake struck, told The Associated Press by phone.
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earthquake → knock → phone
Videos shared by newspaper La Prensa showed the tower of a historic building had collapsed along with several balconies of a residential building in Penonome, a city about halfway between the epicenter and Panama City.
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tower → share → epicenter
In the capital, the service on two lines of the Panama City Metro was temporarily suspended for safety reasons, the operator said.
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operator → suspend → reasons
Nationwide, Panama's ministry of education ordered the closure of schools.
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ministry → order → schools
The impact prompted the US Tsunami Warning System to warn that hazardous tsunami waves were possible along parts of the coasts of Panama, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Peru, Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador and Mexico within the next three hours.
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waves → prompt → hours
The system also said there was a tsunami threat to Hawaii, while Chile's navy also issued a tsunami alert.
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navy → say → alert
Panama was due to hold a national evacuation drill on Monday of next week to test the country's emergency response capabilities against earthquakes.
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Panama → hold → earthquakes
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