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A magnitude 6.0 earthquake hit Panama, the latest strong tremor after a 7.7 quake struck the country a day earlier, local media reported on Saturday.
Shafaq News reports that the country’s emergency operations chief Rene Garcia said no deaths were immediately reported, while at least two people were injured in the earllier earthquake.
Seismo data placed the 6.0 tremor 7 kilometres north of La Tronosa at a depth of 10 kilometres. Panama’s Geosciences Institute had recorded more than 80 aftershocks by Saturday, including at least one above magnitude 6.0.
The main earthquake struck on Friday near Pitaloza Arriba in central Panama. The US Geological Survey initially estimated its magnitude at 8.0 before revising it to 7.7.
Garcia said the two reported injuries involved people trapped in collapsed structures, one near a church in Veraguas province and another at a hotel in Cocie province.
Santos were the worst-hit provinces, while Tonosi in Los Santos was cut off by road.
