The National Center for Seismological Research (CENAIS) confirmed in a bulletin that the second earthquake recorded this Sunday, at 12:49 p.m., had a magnitude of 6.7 on the Richter scale, surpassing the first quake recorded at 10:50 a.m., which was 6.0.
On its website, CENAIS reported that the event originated at a depth of 10 km and was located 32 km southeast of Pilón, in Granma province.
Additionally, it was noted that so far, reports of perceptibility have been received from the province of Santiago de Cuba, Guantánamo, Granma, and Holguín.
It was noted that as of the latest information, material damages have been reported in Pilón up to this point.
With the registration of this magnitude 6.7 earthquake on Sunday, it becomes the 14th perceptible tremor recorded so far in 2024.
Several social media users reported that this aftershock was felt even more strongly.
The previous one, registered this Sunday at 10:50 a.m., reached a magnitude of 6.0 and was felt in several provinces in eastern Cuba.
"The network of stations of the Cuban National Seismological Service has recorded an earthquake reported as perceptible at 10:50 local time, located at coordinates 19.75 degrees north latitude and -76.91 degrees west longitude, at a depth of 10.0 km and with a magnitude of 6.0, situated 48 kilometers southeast of Pilón, Granma province," Ana María Vázquez Villavicencio announced on her social media.
In October, a magnitude 5.1 earthquake was recorded on the Richter scale, approximately 20 kilometers south/southwest of the city of Santiago de Cuba. Seismologists are closely monitoring the aftershocks associated with this seismic event.
These replicas are oriented north-south, which has caught the attention of experts due to their similarity to the seismic swarm that occurred after the earthquake on January 17, 2016, reported Enrique Diego Arango Arias, head of the National Seismological Service of Cuba, from the National Center for Seismological Research (CENAIS), via Facebook.
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