according to the U.S.G.S.<\/a> In Miami, city officials said in a statement that people “in several areas” had made calls to emergency services, but that there were no significant injuries or damage reported. Miami’s Metrorail trains briefly stopped running, and the county emergency department said that some buildings had been evacuated “out of an abundance of caution.”<\/p>\nJochen Braunmiller, an assistant professor at the University of South Florida who studies earthquakes, said he did not initially believe reports of the earthquake because they are relatively rare in the region, and he did not feel it.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s very unfortunate,\u201d he said. \u201cI mean, I’m a seismologist, but I’m not very sensitive to shaking, it seems.\u201d<\/p>\n
But nearby colleagues did, he said. \u201cPeople in our building in Tampa \u2014 400, 300 miles or so away from the epicenter \u2014 felt it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The earthquake was among the strongest recorded in the Gulf of Mexico in the last 100 years, according to U.S.G.S. records. Unlike California, where earthquakes occur often because of fault lines between tectonic plates, earthquakes aren\u2019t as common in the Gulf of Mexico because it is inside the tectonic plate, Mr. Braunmiller said.<\/p>\n
As seismologists review available data, they may revise the earthquake\u2019s reported magnitude. Additional information collected about the earthquake may also prompt U.S.G.S. scientists to update the shake-severity map.<\/p>\n
Sources: United States Geological Survey (epicenter, aftershocks, shake intensity); LandScan via Oak Ridge National Laboratory (population density) | Notes: Shaking categories are based on the Modified Mercalli Intensity<\/a> scale. When aftershock data is available, the corresponding maps and charts include earthquakes within 100 miles and seven days of the initial quake. All times above are Eastern. Shake data is as of Monday, June 8 at 2:13 p.m. Eastern. Aftershocks data is as of Tuesday, June 9 at 8:29 a.m. Eastern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Note: Map shows the area with a shake intensity of 3 or greater, which U.S.G.S. defines as \u201cweak,\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-725311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725311","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=725311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}