6.4 magnitude earthquake<\/a> but later demoted to 6.1 by the U.S. Geological Survey, was felt by people across Florida, despite its epicenter over 250 miles away from the southernmost city of Key West.<\/p>\nBoth the National Weather Service of Miami and the Florida Keys said there was no cause for alarm and no tsunami threat, but that didn\u2019t stop confused Floridians from taking to social media and neighborhood Facebook groups to ask if anyone else felt something similar.<\/p>\n
Most of the reports came in from Southeast and Central Florida, but some shock waves were reported as far north as Jacksonville and near Gainesville. And while the quake did cause some disruptions in downtown Miami \u2014 the evacuation of County Hall and the halting of Metrorail service \u2014 officials were quick to calm the masses.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no cause for alarm,\u201d the Miami Beach Fire Department assured people.<\/p>\n
April Whitney, 50, who responded to a North Florida news post of the earthquake and said she felt shaking in Archer, a small town about 30 minutes from Gainesville.<\/p>\n
Whitney said she was in bed when she thought she felt her house shake. She thought to herself, \u2018No way that\u2019s a tremor,\u2019 but it felt the same as what she imagined it to be.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t think anything of it until people were asking \u2018Did you feel that?\u2019\u201d she told the Miami Herald.<\/p>\n
People in downtown Miami, West Palm Beach, the Keys, Bradenton and the Gulf Coast also felt the quake.<\/p>\n
In Fort Myers, Kristin Marsh was working in her home office, her mini dachshund puppy nestled to her lap, when she felt the floor vibrating. She thought something was wrong \u2014 maybe she was having a reaction to something, until office items started to shake. She then realized what it was.<\/p>\n
Many of her neighbors were posting similar experiences.<\/p>\n
\u201cI echoed the sentiment of many people who thought they were losing their minds,\u201d she said. \u201cIt was so bizarre.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A map locating the epicenter of a 6.1 magnitude earthquake near Cuba\u2019s Pinar del R\u00edo province. National Weather…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-300804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300804","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=300804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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