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M5.4 Shallow Earthquake Recorded Near 9 km SSE of Los Asientos, Panama

USGS Week reports M5.4 near 9 km SSE of Los Asientos, Panama, with a 10.0 km catalog depth.

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News card for M5.4 Shallow Earthquake Recorded Near 9 km SSE of Los Asientos, Panama

The event began at Fri, 09 Oct 2026 23:12:37 GMT. USGS Week reports magnitude 5.4, 10.0 km catalog depth, and coordinates 7.437, -80.097.

The catalog location label is 9 km SSE of Los Asientos, 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 7.94e+12 joules, or about 1,898 tons of TNT equivalent; that calculation describes source energy, not local damage.

The current catalog entry does not include a public felt-report count. Other attached observation fields include catalog significance score 449. No official casualty or damage statement is attached to the normalized event evidence.

The USGS Week catalog currently marks the solution as reviewed. No station-count, phase-count, residual, gap, or uncertainty fields were supplied in the normalized record. 1 alternate network solution is retained for comparison.

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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US event record: 9 km SSE of Los Asientos, Panama — USGS WeekGreen earthquake (Magnitude 6.6M, Depth:10km) in Panama 09/10/2026 20:25 UTC, 10 thousand (in MMI>=VII). — GDACSGreen earthquake (Magnitude 5.8M, Depth:10km) in Panama 09/10/2026 18:37 UTC, 5 thousand (in MMI>=VII). — GDACSGreen earthquake (Magnitude 5.5M, Depth:10km) in Panama 09/10/2026 18:22 UTC, Few people affected (in MMI>=VII). — GDACSOrange earthquake (Magnitude 7.7M, Depth:12.647km) in Panama 09/10/2026 17:56 UTC, 500 thousand (in MMI>=VII). — GDACS
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