Looking at the PAGER info, it looks like it was pretty far from the largest cities and only affected them, and Panama City in particular, minimally, which will limit the impact quite a bit.
remember that other day Venezuela had a terrible earthquake
klardotsh 56 minutes ago [-]
It's not called the Pacific Ring Of Fire for nothing. There's earthquakes all up and down the coast, from Chile all the way to Alaska and wrapping around to the Asian coasts, all the time.
fritzo 53 minutes ago [-]
Isn't Venezuela on the Atlantic?
stackghost 38 minutes ago [-]
It is, but there's a subduction zone just off their northern coast following the curve of the Lesser Antilles so I could see how someone might mistakenly lump it into the pacific ring. It's not that far away from the northern Andes, in the grand scheme of things.
https://www.telemetro.com/nacionales/asi-se-vivio-el-fuerte-...
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000u18k...
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/pr20262770...
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000u18k...
https://multimedia.panama-canal.com/index.html
Wanna tell us common folks what that means?
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000u18k...
Scale is 1 to 12. This is a 9.