{"id":300794,"date":"2026-06-09T01:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T01:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/300794\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T01:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T01:46:10","slug":"cuba-earthquake-prompts-miami-evacuations-felt-across-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/300794\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba earthquake prompts Miami evacuations, felt across Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 6.1 magnitude earthquake off the west-northwest coast of Cuba<\/a> prompted evacuations of several buildings across Miami on Tuesday and was felt as far north as Jacksonville.<\/p>\n

Students at Fusion Academy were among those whose day was interrupted when their building was evacuated.<\/p>\n

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6.1 magnitude earthquake off Cuba coast prompts evacuations across Miami, felt to Jacksonville<\/p>\n

“The people that are in the top floors, which they said that they felt it even more than we did,” student Maria Torrado said.<\/p>\n

“We usually hear the fire alarm, like the beam, beam, beep, but this one was very like evacuate now, like they were saying this is not a drill, so it was really scary,” Torrado said.<\/p>\n

Not everyone felt the quake. Students at the Swatch Watchmaking School were evacuated but said they had no idea why at first.<\/p>\n

“The whole break room, and they felt like some sort of earthquake, and that they were evacuating, and we were like, we literally didn’t feel a thing. We thought maybe somebody was messing with them, like that. Somebody said, like, did you feel that? And, but I guess there was some sort of quake,” Jack Hodapp said.<\/p>\n

Streets near some affected buildings were blocked off for a time as the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office set up a command center.<\/p>\n

Those evacuated were let back inside shortly after. For some, like Juan Cardona, the cause of the commotion was not immediately clear.<\/p>\n

“It was crowded here. It was crowded here,” Cardona said.<\/p>\n

“In the beginning, I thought there was some kind of a criminal scene, or whatever, but no, it wasn’t that. Then talking to the people is when I realized there was an earthquake in Cuba, and then somehow impacted this area of Florida,” Cardona said.<\/p>\n

The National Weather Service said there is no tsunami risk as a result of the quake. No injuries have been reported.<\/p>\n

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