Evacuations in Panama following two quakes and multiple aftershocks

<p>Two powerful 7.7 and 6.6 magnitude earthquakes and a series of aftershocks roiled southern Panama, collapsing buildings near the epicentre and prompting evacuations across the country.</p> <p>The earlier quake, felt as far away as neighboring Colombia, was centred about 10 kilometres southwest of the remote community of Pitaloza Arriba, in the central province of Herrera, the USGS said. It struck at a depth of 10 kilometres.</p> <p>The USGS initially reported the first quake as magnitude 8, then revised it to 7.6 and later to 7.7.</p> <p>Visibly shaken residents of Panama City, the capital, gathered outside as they waited for news of the quake’s impact.</p> <p>“We felt it very strongly. It knocked things over in the kitchen, but we’re OK, though we’re very scared," Rosendo Domínguez, 60, who is from Herrera province, where the earthquake struck, told The Associated Press by phone.