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A 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck adjacent occidental Cuba connected Monday (June 8, 2026), shaking buildings successful Havana, and its tremors were felt each the mode up to Florida. No injuries oregon harm were instantly reported.
The quake struck astatine a extent of 10 km successful waters westbound of Havana, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Flavia Pupo, a manager astatine the Pinar del Rio edifice successful occidental Cuba, described however the gathering shook, sparking panic. "Everyone present is OK," she said implicit telephone. "The radical connected the thoroughfare are a small spot scared."
The latest earthquake was felt arsenic acold distant arsenic Florida. The National Weather Service successful Miami said successful a tweet that it received respective reports of shaking successful the southwestern portion of the state. A flood of societal media posts Monday (June 8, 2026) day indicated that radical felt shaking adjacent northbound of Orlando.
Maria Moncayo, who works astatine a instrumentality bureau successful downtown Fort Lauderdale, said she had been softly moving astatine her table erstwhile she started to consciousness a vibrating sensation. She compared it to idiosyncratic doing operation successful different portion of the building, and it lasted astir a infinitesimal oregon so.
Ms. Moncayo said she had experienced respective earthquakes portion surviving successful Ecuador, including a 7.8 magnitude earthquake that near hundreds dormant successful 2016. But she hadn't experienced 1 since moving to Florida 7 years ago.
"Since I moved here, it benignant of near my mind, but erstwhile I felt my table moving, I thought it was going to beryllium similar Ecuador," Ms. Moncayo said. "It benignant of gave maine flashbacks, but past I realized that it's not bad, it's conscionable a small one."
Miami-Dade County officials announced that they were evacuating respective buildings retired of an abundance of caution, including the county's main authorities bureau building, a 28-story precocious emergence successful downtown Miami.
Officials besides temporarily suspended work for 2 elevated commuter bid services that tally done downtown. No injuries oregon large spot harm person been reported.
William Barnhart, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey, described Monday's (June 8, 2026) earthquake arsenic highly rare. It's the largest earthquake ever recorded successful the Gulf of Mexico with modern instruments, which day backmost to the 1950s. "It's 1 of lone 5 oregon six earthquakes of magnitude 5 oregon greater that we're alert of successful the full Gulf."
No tsunami was created by this earthquake. Barnhart pointed retired that the destructive water waves created by earthquakes and different underwater disturbances are much communal successful the Pacific Ocean, but they tin hap successful the Atlantic. Western Cuba mightiness acquisition immoderate beardown aftershocks, but they're improbable to beryllium felt successful Florida, Mr. Barnhart said.
"There's ever a very, precise tiny accidental that this could beryllium followed by a larger earthquake and radical would consciousness that," Mr. Barnhart said. "But successful Florida, radical shouldn't expect to consciousness precise overmuch shaking, if immoderate shaking astatine all, from immoderate aftershocks that happen.”
The Oriente responsibility portion is located conscionable disconnected Cuba's southeast seashore and has unleashed damaging earthquakes successful caller centuries, including a 7.7 magnitude quake successful January 2020 successful unfastened waters that caused harm successful Cuba and the Cayman Islands.
