A record-setting earthquake off the western coast of Cuba shook up Floridians throughout the state on Monday afternoon.

The 6.1 magnitude quake, which took place at 2 p.m., was the largest to ever occur in the Gulf, surpassing a 6.0 quake from 1880, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

“It was the largest earthquake ever observed in this area … well away from the active boundary between the North American and Caribbean plates,” a spokesperson for the USGS said.

The earthquake occurred about 65 miles from Mantua, Cuba, at a depth of 16 miles in waters just west of Havana. The quake shook buildings in the capital and beyond but no injuries or damage were reported.

Robert Garcia of the National Weather Service in Miami said he had received several reports of shaking in the southwestern parts of Florida.

“A lot of that energy would have been more strongly felt over Cuba, but you can’t rule out people feeling it in Florida, especially if they were in a taller building,” Garcia said.

Shaking was reported throughout much of the state, including all of South Florida region, the Florida Keys, the majority of the west coast and the Orlando, Jacksonville, Tallahassee and Panhandle areas, according to a U.S. Geological Survey map. There were dozens of reports of shaking throughout the South Florida region.

Multiple buildings in Miami were apparently evacuated due to shaking, including Miami-Dade’s Stephen P. Clark Government Center and the Dadeland Metrorail Station.

Miami Fire Rescue received multiple calls for service in several parts of the city, the city said in a statement Monday afternoon. No significant injuries or property damage were reported, and all calls were handled without issue.

Maria Moncayo, who works at a law office in downtown Fort Lauderdale, said she had been quietly working at her desk when she started to feel a vibrating sensation. She compared it to someone doing construction in another part of the building, and it lasted about a minute or so.

“I have a little pendant dangling in my desk, and it was moving,” Moncayo said. “That’s why I realized that it’s actually not me or my chair or anything.”

Moncayo said she had experienced several earthquakes while living in Ecuador, including a 7.8 magnitude earthquake that left hundreds dead in 2016. But she hadn’t experienced one since moving to Florida seven years ago.

“Since I moved here, it kind of left my mind, but when I felt my desk moving, I thought it was going to be like Ecuador,” Moncayo said. “It kind of gave me flashbacks, but then I realized that it’s not bad, it’s just a little one.”

In tweets on social media, Florida residents described what they felt on Monday:

“I felt it in Golden Oak, near Disney World. The house rattled and felt a subtle and very brief swaying,” wrote Susan Varney.

Amy Potts Alegi wrote: “We felt it on Siesta Key! Lots of shaking. 2 waves!”

“Palm Bay, was sitting in my computer chair and felt it. Wasn’t dramatic but I felt it,” wrote Jaysen Taylor.

In Cuba, the tremor was felt in the province of Pinar del Río, along with Havana.

Flavia Pupo, a manager at the Pinar del Río hotel, described how the building shook, causing some fear.

“Everyone here is OK,” she said by telephone. “The people on the street are a little bit scared.”

The USGS said the quake was unusual given that, unlike most such tremors, it didn’t occur along tectonic plate boundaries. The shaking was felt more than 300 miles from the quake’s epicenter.

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 on January 2020 in open waters that caused damage in Cuba and the Cayman Islands.

There was no tsunami warning from Monday’s quake, NWS Miami said.

Information from the Orlando Sentinel and the Associated Press was used in this report.