{"id":300274,"date":"2026-06-08T18:53:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T18:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/300274\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T18:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T18:53:14","slug":"shaking-felt-across-swfl-after-6-1-magnitude-earthquake-near-cuba-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/300274\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaking felt across SWFL after 6.1 magnitude earthquake near Cuba | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SOUTHWEST FLORIDA, (WINK) \u2014\u00a0A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck approximately 104 kilometers (65 miles) off the coast of Cuba on Monday afternoon, <a href=\"https:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/eventpage\/us7000srjx\/executive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to the U.S. Geological Survey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Reports of shaking were received from several communities throughout Southwest Florida, though no significant impacts or damage have been reported at this time.<\/p>\n<p>While Florida is not known for frequent earthquakes, seismic activity in Cuba and the Caribbean can occasionally be felt across South Florida due to the region&#8217;s proximity to several active fault zones. These powerful fault systems can transmit low-frequency seismic waves through the Earth&#8217;s crust and across surrounding waters, allowing tremors to travel long distances before gradually weakening.<\/p>\n<p>USGS said the earthquake occurred 65 miles from Mantua, Cuba, at 2 p.m. Eastern. Originally, USGS had the earthquake rated at a 6.4 magnitude before lowering the rating.<\/p>\n<p>The National Tsunami Warning Center has said there is no tsunami danger from the earthquake.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"swfl earthquake\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1480\" height=\"892\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>The WINK Weather Authority is continuing to monitor the situation and will provide updates if any additional seismic activity or related threats develop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SOUTHWEST FLORIDA, (WINK) \u2014\u00a0A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck approximately 104 kilometers (65 miles) off the coast of Cuba&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,1521],"class_list":["post-300274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-southwest-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300274","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=300274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}