{"id":300258,"date":"2026-06-08T18:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T18:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/300258\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T18:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T18:42:08","slug":"6-1-earthquake-reported-in-cuba-reportedly-felt-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/300258\/","title":{"rendered":"6.1 earthquake reported in Cuba, reportedly felt in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 Did you feel a rumble right around 2 p.m., Monday?<\/p>\n<p>If you did, it was likely an earthquake that hit just off the coast of Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists are putting the epicenter just to the west of Cuba, calling it a 6.1. Originally, <a href=\"https:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/map\/?currentFeatureId=us7000srjx&amp;extent=2.1089,-134.91211&amp;extent=61.14324,5.71289\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the U.S. Geological Survey<\/a> had the quake at 6.4, before lowering the rating.<\/p>\n<p>Vibrations could be felt at Spectrum Bay News 9&#8217;s facility off Carillon Drive in St. Pete and in Orlando, too.<\/p>\n<p>In Orange County, the public works building was evacuated after employees said they felt their building shake.<\/p>\n<p>The quake was 104 kilometers west-northwest of Mantua, Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>Our meteorologists say a tsunami warning is not likely.<\/p>\n<p>MORE DETAILS:<\/p>\n<p>This is a Tsunami Information Statement for the U.S. east coast, Gulf of America states and eastern Canada.<\/p>\n<p>There is no tsunami danger for the U.S. east coast, the Gulf of America states, or the eastern coast of Canada.\u00a0<br \/>\nBased on earthquake information and historic tsunami records, the earthquake is not expected to generate a tsunami.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tsunami Information Statement Number 1<\/p>\n<p>Earthquake Information<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Location: in the Cuba region<\/p>\n<p>Latitude: 22.8 N<\/p>\n<p>Longitude: 85.3 W<\/p>\n<p>Magnitude: 6.4\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Origin Time: 2026-06-08 14:00 EDT\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Depth: 21 miles\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For many Floridians, Monday&#8217;s incident brought back memories of the quake of 2011. It was the result of a deadly 9.0 earthquake in Japan that killed thousands.<\/p>\n<p>Those in Florida felt a lot of shaking, and it even impacted the state&#8217;s water table.<\/p>\n<p>Stay with Spectrum News on-air, online and the <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/app\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Spectrum News app<\/a> for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 Did you feel a rumble right around 2 p.m., Monday? If you did, it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[28,115,139,275,202,204,203,199,201,200,135],"class_list":["post-300258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-florida","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}