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3.0 magnitude earthquake registered in Santiago de Cuba

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MADRID, Spain.- On Monday night, an earthquake of magnitude 3.0 on the Richter scale was registered south of Santiago de Cuba.

The earthquake occurred at 09:43 pm, local time, and was located at the coordinates 19.87 degrees north latitude and 75.93 degrees west longitude, 20.0 km south-southwest of the city of Santiago de Cuba, according to the network. of stations of the National Seismological Service (DINNER).

The earthquake, the tenth registered in Cuba during 2022, had a depth of 5.0 km. According to the information, no human or material damages were reported.

At the beginning of last month An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.6 on the Richter scale was reported, located 86 kilometers northeast of the city of Las Tunas, which was felt in the rest of the eastern provinces, except in Guantanamo.

It was located at the coordinates 21.88 degrees North latitude and -76.38 degrees West longitude, at a depth of 1 kilometer.

According to semester summary published by CENAIS, for the first half of 2022, the area with the highest number of registered earthquakes was the Santiago-Baconao region, with 705, and the day on which the most events of this type occurred was March 14, with 22 registered.

Nearly 70% of the telluric events reported in Cuba are concentrated in the Oriente fault, located along the southeast coast of the country. The eastern region is the most prone to this type of phenomenon due to its location on the border of the North American and Caribbean tectonic plates.

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