"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today."-James Dean
Feb 27
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 [...]
Oct 22
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/
May 08
At 3:30 AM, according to my watch, the bed started shaking. It was 4.7 on the Richter scale.
Mar 13
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.
Mar 12
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.
Mar 12
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 [...]
Mar 11
If you were in the Chiriquí area you may have felt it too. There were two bits of shaking. The USGS site says it was a 5.7 on the Richter scale.
Nov 22
I received the following information from a CC reader. I hadn’t checked the local Panama Earthquake site, but the reader did.
The site’s information is in Spanish, but it is interesting reading. So following the link below ( cut and paste into your address line ) you can see that running perpendicular to the shore a [...]
