M 6.6 in Panama on 09 Oct 2026 20:25 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1570370
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.6M
Glide number: EQ-2026-000188-PAN
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 7.7176 , -81.4687
Event Date: 09 Oct 2026 20:25 UTC
09 Oct 2026 15:25 Local
Exposed Population: 10 thousand (in MMI>=VII)
Inserted at: 09 Oct 2026 20:38 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4 (Panama)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0.9 0.3 0.9
us6000u19w Scaled population (raster) 3.14 Max wave alert 0.3m  
  C1 shakemap -0.59 Max wave realtime 0.3m  
  C2 shakemap 0.53      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 0.87      
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (90), NEIC (5), OCHA (1), DesInventar (2), WMO (2), USGS (5), (3), INFORM (4),