HAVANA (AP) — A 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck close to western Cuba on Monday, shaking buildings in Havana and past.
No accidents or injury have been instantly reported.
The quake struck at a depth of six miles (10 kilometers) in waters simply west of the capital, based on the U.S. Geological Survey.
Flavia Pupo, a supervisor on the Pinar del Río lodge, in Pinar del Rio, described how the constructing shook and brought about some concern.
“Everybody right here is OK,” she mentioned by phone. “The folks on the road are somewhat bit scared.”
The newest earthquake was felt as distant as Florida. The Nationwide Climate Service in Miami mentioned in a tweet that it acquired a number of studies of shaking within the southwestern a part of the state.
The Oriente fault zone is situated simply off Cuba’s southeast coast and has unleashed damaging earthquakes in latest centuries, together with a 7.7 magnitude quake on January 2020 in open waters that brought about injury in Cuba and the Cayman Islands.
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