On November 10, “The United States Geological Survey reported that a magnitude 5.9 earthquake occurred in southeastern Cuba (21 miles off the municipality of Granma), at about 11 am. Shortly before noon, a larger, magnitude 6.8 tremor struck near the site of the first one.” These quakes damaged houses, buildings and power lines as well as causing landslides.
“Cuba’s National Center for Seismological Research (CENAIS) confirmed that a premonitory earthquake of 6.0 on the Richter scale, a main earthquake of 6.7 on the Richter scale, and more than 300 aftershocks had been reported, 15 of which were perceptible and with magnitudes ranging from 2.5 to 5.9 degrees in intensity.”
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Blanes, Strong earthquakes shake southeast Cuba on the heels of hurricane, island blackouts. Miami Herald (Nov. 10, 2024); Fernandez, “The building was shaking, the children were screaming tnat I didn’t know what to do’: earthquakes in Santiago de Cuba, Diario de Cuba (Nov. 11, 2024); Earthquakes in the East marked a “pattern in Cuban seismological history,” Granma (Nov. 11, 2024).
