Two earthquakes occurred this Sunday, November 10, a few hours apart, off the south coast of the island, near Santiago. The tremors were felt across the country, with no casualties at this stage.
Two earthquakes shook Cuba in a few hours this Sunday, November 10. A 5.9 magnitude tremor first occurred off the southern coast of the island of Cuba, not far from Santiago, the country's second largest city. Then a second, even more powerful (magnitude 6.8), shook the area. The epicenter of the first earthquake was located 14.2 kilometers under the ocean, approximately 35 kilometers from the coast of Bartolome Maso and approximately 175 kilometers from Santiago. The second earthquake occurred 23.5 kilometers under the ocean.
The tremors were felt throughout the country, particularly the eastern provinces of the island as well as those of Camagüey and Ciego de Ávila (center), reported the Cuban official newspaper Granma. And this while many homes are old and fragile. However, the media does not report any deaths at this stage. The American Institute of Geophysics did not issue a tsunami warning.
Most of the seismic activity in Cuba takes place in the Santiago region. A fault line runs along the southeast coast of the island, marking the boundary between the North American plate and the Caribbean plate, according to Cuba's seismic service.
An electricity network in the dark for a long time after two hurricanes
These earthquakes come as the island is just recovering from other disasters. Hurricane Oscar, in particular, swept its east coast at the end of October with wind gusts of more than 130 km/h accompanied by violent rains, while the country was already plunged into darkness due to a giant power outage. electricity. Then it was the turn of Rafael, another hurricane, to hit the west of the island last week and cause a widespread outage lasting almost two days – the damage caused to the electricity network is not yet completely over. repaired. Intermittent outages remain the norm in much of eastern Cuba today, also complicating communications.
Last month, a 5.1 magnitude earthquake was recorded in Santiago de Cuba without causing damage. At the end of January 2020, a 7.7 magnitude earthquake shook the Caribbean between Cuba and Jamaica, felt in several provinces of Cuba but without causing damage despite evacuations in Havana.
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