International meteorological organizations recommend issuing tsunami warnings after an earthquake
A tsunami alert for the Dominican Republic was canceled 15 minutes after being issued, after two earthquakes recorded yesterday in Cuba, reported last night the director of the Dominican Institute of Meteorology (Inodomet), Gloria Ceballos.
“As of this moment, Indomet cancels the tsunami alert/warning issued for the Dominican Republic,” indicates a document issued at 1:17 p.m. m, following the tsunami warning issued at 12:49 past meridian.
He highlights that it was taken into consideration “that no large magnitude sea level variations have been recorded or observed in the last two hours; it is considered that the greatest threat associated with the tsunami has passed.”
However, he recommended that the population remain attentive to the guidelines of the Emergency Operations Center (COE).
Ceballos specified that the tsunami alert was made on the recommendation of international organizations, after two earthquakes affected Cuba due to the state of the waters in the sea in a radius of action close to the Dominican coasts.
One of the earthquakes in Cuba was 6.0 on the Richter scale and occurred at 10:00 am and the other was 6.7 at 11:49 am in the Granma province.
This situation forced it to be recommended that the Dominican Republic issue a tsunami warning.
