M5.0 Earthquake Near 3 km NW of Flores, Panama Draws 13 Felt Reports
USGS Week reports M5.0 near 3 km NW of Flores, Panama, with a 10.0 km catalog depth and 13 felt reports.
The event began at Sun, 11 Oct 2026 01:50:52 GMT. USGS Week reports magnitude 5.0, 10.0 km catalog depth, and coordinates 7.514, -80.428.
The catalog location label is 3 km NW of Flores, 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 2.00e+12 joules, or about 477 tons of TNT equivalent; that calculation describes source energy, not local damage.
13 public felt reports are attached to the current catalog entry. Other attached observation fields include catalog significance score 389. 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.
At a glance
- Magnitude 5.0
- 10.0 km catalog depth
- 2.00e+12 J magnitude-derived energy estimate
- Origin: Sun, 11 Oct 2026 01:50:52 GMT
- 13 attached felt reports
- USGS Week monitoring record