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M5.0 Shallow Earthquake Recorded Near South of Panama

GEOFON GFZ reports M5.0 near South of Panama, with a 10.0 km catalog depth.

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News card for M5.0 Shallow Earthquake Recorded Near South of Panama

The event began at Sat, 05 Sep 2026 05:00:10 GMT. GEOFON GFZ reports magnitude 5.0, 10.0 km catalog depth, and coordinates 3.589, -82.925.

The catalog location label is South of Panama; no separate nearest-city field was supplied with this solution. By catalog depth, this is a shallow event. The magnitude-derived energy estimate is 2.29e+12 joules, or about 548 tons of TNT equivalent; that calculation describes source energy, not local damage.

The current catalog entry does not include a public felt-report count. No separate intensity or catalog-significance detail is available from this provider record. No official casualty or damage statement is attached to the normalized event evidence.

GEOFON GFZ has not supplied a review status in the normalized record. No station-count, phase-count, residual, gap, or uncertainty fields were supplied in the normalized record. No alternate network solution is attached to this record.

The provider record does not carry a tsunami flag at publication time. Magnitude, depth, and location can change as monitoring networks add observations and review the solution.

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GFZ event record: South of Panama — GEOFON GFZ
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