A robust earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.6 struck Wednesday night throughout the Caribbean Sea merely off the Panama-Colombia border, the US Geological Survey talked about.
There was no speedy phrase on whether or not or not have been any accidents or hurt throughout the shut by areas, which aren’t densely populated.
The USGS talked about the quake was centered about 41 kilometers (25 miles) northeast of Puerto Obaldia, Panama. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 kilometers (6 miles). An aftershock with a magnitude of 4.9 adopted about 10 minutes after the distinctive quake.
Panama’s civil safety firm talked about by means of Twitter that the earthquake was felt throughout the provinces of Darien, Panama, Guna Yala and West Panama. “There isn’t a such factor as a report of outcomes,” it talked about.
The temblor was felt in some elements of Panama’s capital, nonetheless not in others.
The realm shaken is residence to the Darien Gap, a sparsely settled house of dense jungle that may very well be a principal land route for migrants heading north out of South America. Tons of of a whole bunch of migrants have handed by recently.
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