{"id":300319,"date":"2026-06-08T19:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T19:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/300319\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T19:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T19:26:10","slug":"6-1-magnitude-earthquake-near-cuba-sends-shockwaves-across-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/300319\/","title":{"rendered":"6.1-magnitude earthquake near Cuba sends shockwaves across Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Viewers report shaking in Central Florida<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">ORLANDO, Fla.  \u2013 A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck near Cuba and Mexico, sending tremors that were felt as far away as Central Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/map\/?extent=11.09217,-105.60059&amp;extent=43.92955,-35.28809\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/map\/?extent=11.09217,-105.60059&amp;extent=43.92955,-35.28809\">U.S. Geological Survey<\/a>, the earthquake\u2019s epicenter was located approximately 65 miles from Mantua, Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>National Weather Service Miami said it received several reports of shaking felt across much of Florida after a 6.1-magnitude earthquake just west of Cuba. (Copyright 2026 by National Weather Service &#8211; All rights reserved.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">According to the National Weather Service, no tsunami threat is expected from the earthquake. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">News 6 received calls from viewers in Central Florida, particularly in the Clermont area, reporting that they felt the tremors.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking News Alerts<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 bTVksG\">Get breaking news alerts delivered to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 kfUEDb copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WKMG ClickOrlando &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>About the AuthorHaley Coomes headshot<a class=\"Link-PukYsz7Y__LinkBase-sc-scvrjz-0 gQZqgJ\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/team\/VX5MMK435BB3HMKEZ6LQMPIWQI\/\" title=\"View Haley Coomes&#039;s full profile\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Haley Coomes<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 duhyRF bxSMlJ\">Haley is a digital content producer for ClickOrlando.com and first started as a News 6 producer in October 2014. She&#8217;s a graduate of Indiana University with a Bachelors of Arts degree in journalism. She specializes in theme parks and lifestyle writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Viewers report shaking in Central Florida ORLANDO, Fla. \u2013 A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck near Cuba and Mexico,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[48959,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-300319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-earthquake","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300319","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=300319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}