MEXICO CITY, October 13. /TASS/. A magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck Panama, 32 kilometers southwest of Sona, according to a preliminary report from the University of Panama’s Institute of Geosciences.
The quake was recorded at 6:20 p.m. Monday local time (11:20 p.m. GMT). Its depth was 5 kilometers, seismologists said.
On October 9, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Center reported a magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Panama at 12:56 p.m. local time (5:56 p.m. GMT). Its epicenter was 213 kilometers southwest of the country’s capital, at a depth of 12 kilometers. Some infrastructure and buildings sustained damage, but there were no fatalities.