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DISASTER● LOW2h ago · Oct 10, 2026, 8:49 PM

Why Panama was not Venezuela: the keys to the 7.7 earthquake that left no dead

Clarín · south america

Both had similar magnitudes, but in Venezuela there were 6,500 deaths and in Panama only 27 injured. The depth of the earthquake, the terrain, and the properties of the structures are the keys to the differences between both cases.

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