MIAMI, United States. – The network of stations of the National Center for Seismological Research (CENAIS) of Cuba record This Thursday an earthquake of magnitude 5.1 on the Richter scale, noticeable in the provinces of Santiago de Cuba, Guantánamo and Granma.
The earthquake occurred at 10:49 in the morning and was located at the coordinates 19,755 degrees north latitude and 75,987 degrees west longitude, at a depth of 7 kilometers and at a distance of 20 kilometers south-southwest of the city of Santiago. from Cuba.
According to CENAIS specialists, this perceptible telluric movement is number 12 of the year 2024.
According to CENAISUntil 11:15 this Thursday, reports of perceptibility had been received in several municipalities in the provinces of Santiago de Cuba, Guantánamo and Granma, but no material or human damage was reported.
For its part, the state agency Latin Press He stated that at noon the inhabitants of the city of Santiago de Cuba remained “calm.”
In September of this year, CENAIS detected at least 535 earthquakes on the Oriente fault, between Guantánamo and Santiago de Cuba, after the perceptible earthquake that occurred on September 7, which had a magnitude of 4.1.
Earthquakes recorded in 2023
Last year, Cuba experienced a total of 7,475 earthquakesof which only 14 were noticeable, according to a CENAIS report.
Most of the earthquakes in the national territory were related to the fault Eastthe main area of seismic activity located south of the eastern region of Cuba. This area constitutes a tectonic plate boundary and is a constant source of telluric movements.
Additionally, significant seismic activity was recorded outside the plate boundary zone, particularly in northern Las Tunas and in the southern area of moa (Holguin). Three earthquake swarms were observed in these areas with around 500 events each, although with magnitudes less than 4 on the Richter scale.
The 14 perceptible earthquakes are geographically distributed as follows: five related to the plate boundary zone south of eastern Cuba, five within the national territory and another four with epicenters outside the country (two in Haitione in Jamaica and one north of Honduras). In all these cases, the maximum intensity felt in Cuba was III on the EMS/98 scale.
