Earthquakes in Panama, 2017–2026

One earthquake here in these years is on NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes. NOAA records no deaths for it. 2026 had the most magnitude 4.5+ earthquakes: 84 of the 329. 68 came in the 30 days after the strongest, within 150 km of it. NOAA lists one tsunami that began in or off Panama.

• October 9, 2026Earthquake · M 7.712 km WSW of Pitaloza Arriba, PanamaUSGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• October 9, 2026Earthquake · M 6.612 km W of Río Grande, PanamaUSGS
• October 9, 2026TsunamiIsla Cañas, PanamaNOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• May 25, 2023Earthquake · M 6.545 km NE of Puerto Obaldía, PanamaUSGS
• October 20, 2022Earthquake · M 6.760 km SSW of Boca Chica, PanamaUSGS
• July 21, 2021Earthquake · M 6.771 km S of Burica, PanamaUSGS

• An event counts for Panama when it began inside its borders, or at sea within 100 km of its coast (so one can count for two neighbours), or further out, up to 300 km, where Panama is the nearest country.
• USGS counts are its ComCat catalogue’s earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more, aftershocks included.
• NOAA lists significant events only: earthquakes that killed, did about $1 million of damage, reached magnitude 7.5 or intensity X, or raised a tsunami, and eruptions and tsunamis by like measures. Magnitudes before 1900 are its estimates from written accounts.
• Deaths are NOAA’s total for each event, wherever people died, its tsunami and fires included. A tsunami counts the dead its runup records give for this place: NOAA’s total for a tsunami includes its source quake’s.
• A tsunami from elsewhere counts where one of its runups killed or rose a metre or more.
• The map frames the box around Panama, its neighbours’ quakes included, so its count runs higher than this page’s.
• Counted to October 19, 2026, as is the map. The last 30 days ask USGS again.

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