Strong earthquakes shake Panama, buildings damaged

Panama's president has declared a "major disaster" after a series of tremors damaged buildings, briefly suspended flights and triggered a tsunami alert in Central and South America.

Published 2026-10-10T00:24:49.316Z

DW published "Strong earthquakes shake Panama, buildings damaged" on Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:03:00 GMT. Panama's president has declared a "major disaster" after a series of tremors damaged buildings, briefly suspended flights and triggered a tsunami alert in Central and South America.

The supplied report centers on physical or economic losses. Those figures and characterizations are attributed to DW; they can change as authorities revise casualty accounting, damage surveys, displacement estimates, and recovery costs.

The article is an impact update, not an instrument-feed detection. This separates the documented consequence and response record from the instrument catalog's magnitude, depth, origin-time, and location fields.

The attached DW report is the source for the complete account and later revisions.