A earthquake of magnitude 3.0 on the Richter scale was perceptible this Monday in various points of the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba, according to the network of stations of the National Seismological Service (Cenais).
Registered as the ninth of the year for the Island, the tremor occurred 18 kilometers south of the city of Santiago, with a depth of five kilometers and located at the coordinates 19.87 degrees north latitude and _75.93 degrees west longitude.
Earthquake perceptible by some residents of the city of Santiago de Cuba, with an epicenter ~20km southwest of this city, with a magnitude of 3.0. pic.twitter.com/QGLsh51imw
— CENAIS-Cuba (@CenaisCuba) December 6, 2022
The earthquake, reported at 09:43 local time, did not cause human or material damage, according to official media reports.
At the beginning of November another earthquake was perceptible in this territory, but this time it was also felt in areas of Holguín and Las Tunas.
Last July, Cenais reported that seismic activity on the island occurred with “relative normality” during the first six months of 2022, despite the “very high telluric occurrence recorded to the south of the archipelago, specifically to the southwest of Haiti and linked to the magnitude 7.3 earthquake reported on August 14, 2021.”
