The network of stations of the Cuban National Seismological Service recorded a perceptible earthquake at 10:49 am this Thursday, with a magnitude of 5.1 degrees.
Enrique Diego Arango Arias, head of the National Seismological Service of Cuba, from the National Center for Seismological Research (CENAIS), reported on Facebook that the epicenter was located at the coordinates 19.755 degrees north latitude and 75.987 degrees west longitude, at a depth of 7.0 km, approximately 20 kilometers south/southwest of the city of Santiago de Cuba.
So far, reports of perceptibility have been received in several municipalities of the provinces of Santiago de Cuba, Guantánamo, and Granma. However, no material damage or human casualties have been reported up to the closure of this information, according to a note published by CENAIS on its website.
This earthquake is the 12th perceptible one recorded in Cuba during the year 2024, confirming the constant seismic activity in the eastern region of the country, which is near the Caribbean tectonic fault, an area prone to tectonic movements. Authorities continue to monitor the situation.
Users on social media confirmed that the earthquake was perceptible in the provinces of Granma, Guantánamo, and Santiago de Cuba.
On September 7, the Seismological Service of Cuba recorded a magnitude 3.8 earthquake on the Richter scale, the eleventh perceptible one of the year, which was felt in the province of Santiago de Cuba.
After that earthquake, Arango reported that more than 600 tremors had been recorded, all with magnitudes less than 3.5, so close monitoring was being maintained in the eastern area of Santiago-Baconao.
In 2023, a total of 14 perceptible earthquakes were recorded in Cuba, most of which were located along the Oriente fault, the main seismic activity zone in the country and a tectonic plate boundary to the south of the eastern region.
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