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Posted in Earthquake/Seismic on Feb 27th, 2010
Panama was on a tsunami watch for a while, but it has been removed from the list. That is the largest earthquake I can remember.
So far, I only read of 78 deaths. How can that be?
UPDATE 1: I see that Chile is recorded as having the largest earthquake on record in 1960. It was 9.5 [...]
Posted in Earthquake/Seismic on Oct 22nd, 2009
Apparently yesterday there were a couple earthquakes 110 miles south of David in the ocean. One was 6.1 and the other was about 4.9. I felt nothing in David.
URLS from USGS follow:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2009nbad.php
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2009nbae.php
The Panama Website shows three yesterday. It’s URL follows:
http://www.igc.up.ac.pa/
Posted in Earthquake/Seismic on Sep 6th, 2009
I was awakened last night by someone shaking me telling me that we were having an earthquake and the bed was moving here and there. I personally never felt anything. I just looked at the USGS seismic map and there was an earthquake around midnight near Golfito, Costa Rica.
It registered a 4.6 on the Richter [...]
Posted in Earthquake/Seismic on Jul 6th, 2009
Panama City has seen a second tremor in the course of two days.
USGS reports that another tremor of 5.3 occurred last night at 11:10 PM.
The University of Panama reports it to be 5.7.
Posted in Earthquake/Seismic on Jul 4th, 2009
I see that there was a pretty strong tremor (6.0 on the Richter Scale) 60 miles NE of Panama City around 1:49 AM this morning. This is the strongest and closest to Panama City that I can remember since I have lived here. I bet it was a crazy ride in some of the high [...]
Posted in Earthquake/Seismic on May 8th, 2009
At 3:30 AM, according to my watch, the bed started shaking. It was 4.7 on the Richter scale.
Posted in Earthquake/Seismic on Mar 14th, 2009
This one was 4.8 according to USGS.
Posted in Earthquake/Seismic on Mar 13th, 2009
The latest tremor, which was about an hour ago was listed as 4.9. It seems that this time of year there is always a fair amount of shaking going on.
Posted in Earthquake/Seismic on Mar 12th, 2009
While I didn’t feel it because I was walking around, others in the house did. The latest quake is currently listed as 6.2 on the Richter scale. Tis the season.
Posted in Earthquake/Seismic on Mar 12th, 2009
The website Instituto de Geociencias is in Spanish, This ENGLISH GOOGLE TRANSLATION will give you a lot of good information. Instituto de Geociencias is associated with the University of Panama and especially established to study seismic activity in Panama. It also has good information on Chiriquí’s seismic history. The main link is in the Chiriquí Chatter [...]
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