the island hit by two earthquakes, including one of magnitude 6.8

Two earthquakes successively struck Cuba this Sunday. Fortunately, no casualties have been reported. There is also no tsunami warning.

The earth shook in Cuba. A powerful earthquake, followed by a strong aftershock, shook southeastern Cuba on Sunday, but local authorities said there were no immediate casualties and no tsunami warning.

The second tremor, measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale, occurred about an hour after a first earthquake of 5.9 magnitude, according to the American Institute of Geophysics (USGS).

The epicenter of the second earthquake was located at a depth of 23.5 kilometers, about 40 km from the coast of Bartolomé Maso, in the province of Granma (southeast).

The first tremor was located 14.2 kilometers under the ocean about 35 kilometers from the coast of Bartolomé Maso, and about 175 kilometers from Santiago de Cuba, the country's second city.

Nature has been unleashed in Cuba for several weeks

This succession of two earthquakes comes as the island is barely recovering from Category 3 Hurricane Rafael, which hit the west of the island and caused a widespread power outage that lasted nearly two days. He himself arrived just a few weeks after Hurricane Oscar.

In the center of Santiago de Cuba, which has 500,000 inhabitants, “people quickly took to the streets because the ground moved very hard,” Andres Perez, a 65-year-old retiree, told AFP.

Last month, a 5.1 magnitude earthquake was recorded in Santiago de Cuba without causing damage.