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A strong earthquake struck Panama on Friday, with the US Geological Survey estimating its magnitude at 7.6 on the Richter scale, sparking a state of panic in the capital, coinciding with the issuance of a warning of the danger of a tsunami.

The earthquake's magnitude was initially estimated at 8 magnitude, before the estimate was revised.

The US Geological Survey said that the earthquake was detected at 17:56 GMT, and that its epicenter was located ten kilometers from the small town of Petalosa Arriba in central and southern Panama, according to what was reported by Agence France-Presse.

The Panama Canal Authority reported that the waterway is operating normally.

The earthquake prompted the American tsunami warning system to warn of the possibility of dangerous tsunami waves reaching parts of the coasts of Panama, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Peru, Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador and Mexico during the next three hours.

The system also said that there was a potential threat of a tsunami in Hawaii, according to Reuters.

Celia Flores, the wife of ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who is also imprisoned in the United States, suffers from “a very sensitive heart problem,” his son Nicolas Maduro Guerra told Agence France-Presse on Monday.

Guerra said that his stepmother “suffers from a very sensitive heart problem... She will turn seventy on October 15.” There are no conditions (in prison) that allow her to fully recover from an operation like the one she must undergo.”

The lawyer for Flores, who was arrested with her husband in a US military operation at the beginning of this year, requested in September that she be released from prison and placed under house arrest to receive treatment.