{"id":723853,"date":"2026-06-08T22:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T22:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/723853\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T22:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T22:04:10","slug":"strong-earthquake-strikes-off-cubas-northwest-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/723853\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong earthquake strikes off Cuba&#8217;s northwest coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck off the coast of Cuba on June 8th, 2026. There are reports that the quake was felt along the Gulf coast including Central Florida.<\/p>\n<p>USGS<\/p>\n<p>An earthquake of magnitude 6.0 struck off the coast of\u00a0Cuba\u00a0on Monday, the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) said.<\/p>\n<p>The quake was at a depth of 10 km (6.21 miles), GFZ added. There were no immediate reports of damages.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Geological Survey reported the earthquake at a 6.1 magnitude, with its epicenter 104 km west-northwest of Mantua,\u00a0Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>No tsunami warning or watch was issued after the earthquake, according to the U.S. National Weather Service.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck off the coast of Cuba on June 8th, 2026. There are reports that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":723854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[161,49,48,13423,9830,295,6388,10594,66,1133],"class_list":["post-723853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-business-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cuba","tag-earthquakes","tag-environment","tag-florida","tag-natural-disasters","tag-science","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}