During The first three months of 2025, Cuba registered a total of 2375 low intensity earthquakesas reported on Monday the National Seismological Service.
Of these, 2170 originated within the Cuban territory, although none exceeded 4.0 degrees on the Richter scale, said Enrique Diego Arango, head of the National Seismological Service of the National Seismological Service of the National Seismological Research Center (Cenais)through social networks.
The most active area in this period was between Pylon and Chivirico, in the east of the country.
Precisely near the Pilón municipality, in the Granma province, the epicenters of two earthquakes of magnitude 6 and 6.7 occurred on November 10 were located.
Following the tremor of 6.7 degrees, during The first months of 2025 have registered 696 replicas in that regionArango reported.
Seismicity recorded in the 1st quarter of the year 2025.
Total registered earthquakes: 2375
Total earthquakes in the Cuba area: 2170
Day with more: January 27 with 60
Zone with more earthquakes: Pilón-Chivirico, with 696.
Most energy zone: Pilón-Chivirico and Cabo Cruz.
Visit the website pic.twitter.com/rqfdxVH3SO– National Seismological Research Center (@cenaiscuba) April 14, 2025
Earthquakes in Cuba during 2023 and 2024
According to dinneris, 2024 was the year with the greatest seismic activity documented in Cuba, with a total of 12 806 earthquakes.
According to the organism, this phenomenon is mainly attributed to three earthquakes of great intensity that shook the orienta area.
In that sense, The seismic events of November, for example, left 10 people injured and more than 8600 affected homes as balance.
Of the affected homes, 156 were total landslides and almost 6000 minor damages, according to a preliminary report by the Cuban government, quoted by an agency’s office EFE.
In addition, on December 23, another tremor of magnitude 6.1 shook the Guama municipality, in Santiago de Cuba. This caused 446 replicas and caused damage to more than 90 homes and four state buildings.
In 2023, the island registered 7475 earthquakes, of which only 14 were noticeable. The magnitudes ranged in less than 3 and up to 5.9 degrees, while about 70 % of the tremors occur along the east fault, located on the southeast coast, one of the most active areas seismically in the country.
Cuba is in a geologically active region that extends from the Dominican Republic to Mexico, where various tectonic fault systems converge that originate earthquakes
