People across Tampa Bay felt shaking Monday afternoon following an earthquake off the coast of Cuba.
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) recorded a 6.1 magnitude earthquake at 2 p.m. in the Gulf, about 65 miles west of Mantua, Cuba. No injuries or damage were immediately reported.
The National Weather Service in Miami says people are calling from up and down the coast to report rumblings. Shaking has been reported in the Tampa, Orlando, Melbourne, Jacksonville and Miami areas.
10 Tampa Bay News viewers said they felt shaking in Apollo Beach, Brooksville, Clearwater, Crystal River, downtown Dade City, Dunedin, Largo, Plant City, Redington Shores, Riverview, South St. Pete, Tampa, Treasure Island, Venice, Winter Haven and Zephyrhills.
“I was sitting at the table working and started to feel the house shake. My computer monitor started shaking as well,” Claudine Cordero, who lives in Apollo Beach, told us.
Danielle Cobos was getting her nails done when she started to feel rumbling.
“It was like a rumbling,” Cobos explained. “It just like continued, and it just definitely felt like something more than just a train, you know? Maybe an explosion. It was so weird.”
Britnee Jeffries recorded video of a mirror shaking in her Tampa home.
An NWS seismograph in Ochopee, which is located in South Florida, picked up seismic activity from the earthquake. Miami Beach Fire Department and Ocean Rescue also confirmed there had been minor tremors from the earthquake felt across South Florida.
The National Tsunami Warning Center confirmed there was no tsunami danger from this particular earthquake.
Earthquakes around Florida are rare but can occur around Cuba and the Caribbean, which can seldom be felt in Florida.
The Oriente fault zone is located just off Cuba’s southeast coast and has unleashed damaging earthquakes in recent centuries, including a 7.7 magnitude quake in January 2020 in open waters that caused damage in Cuba and the Cayman Islands.
TEGNA Digital and The Associated Press contributed to this report.