We were awoken by a minor earthquake this morning at 3:30am. Apparently it was centered in Colon on the Caribbean coast, where there was some minor damage. I dont think anyone was hurt.

It measured 5.3 and it felt like everything was shaking. We woke up and went bake to sleep immediately afterwards. Its funny I thought I dreamt it and it was only when my wife asked me about that I realized that it actually happened.

Update: The USGS have it listed at 5.2 on the richter scale. All the papers are saying 5.3, but USGS are probably to be trusted more than newspapers.

Last year there was a series of earthquakes in Chiriqui close to the Costa Rican border. Back then I wrote this piece about Chirinet the Panamanian network of linux (apparently) based earthquake monitoring devices.