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Strong Panama quake shakes nation, but avoids major destruction
A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck southern Panama on Friday, damaging buildings and sending thousands into the streets, but the country
Summary
Sabina Rios, who was on the sixth floor of an old US military-era building in Panama City, said the shaking was unusually strong and prolonged."The quake felt strong and lasted a long time, the longest I've felt in years," Rios said. "It's a miracle they didn't get killed," he said.
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People
- Ricardo Brown2
- Raul Mulino
- Sanchez
- Pinzon
- Luque
- Rios
Organisations
- Institute of Geosciences
- University of Panama
- economy ministry
- Canal Authority
- Reuters
Places
- Herrera province2
- United States2
- Panama Canal2
- Panama City2
- Panama2
- Los Santos province
- Colombia.PROLONGED
- Pitaloza Arriba
Keywords
- destruction
- earthquake
- historical
- magnitude
- churches
- collapse
- damaging
- declared
- disaster
- avoids
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