{"id":300977,"date":"2026-06-09T05:25:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T05:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/300977\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T05:25:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T05:25:26","slug":"6-1-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-near-cuba-reports-of-light-shaking-in-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/300977\/","title":{"rendered":"6.1-magnitude earthquake strikes near Cuba; reports of light shaking in South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0June 8, 2026 at 2:37 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0June 8, 2026 at 5:20 PM<\/p>\n<p>A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck Monday afternoon about 65 miles from Mantua, Cuba. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MANTUA, Cuba.  \u2014 A 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck Monday afternoon about 65 miles from Mantua, Cuba.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/06\/08\/sismo-de-61-sacude-las-aguas-cerca-de-cuba-y-se-siente-en-el-sur-de-florida\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/06\/08\/sismo-de-61-sacude-las-aguas-cerca-de-cuba-y-se-siente-en-el-sur-de-florida\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Some people in Miami-Dade County reported feeling light shaking in their office buildings. The Miami-Dade Government Center, Miami Beach City Hall and Mount Sinai Medical Center were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/06\/08\/cuba-earthquake-shaking-felt-in-downtown-miami-leading-to-county-hall-evacuation-train-delays\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/06\/08\/cuba-earthquake-shaking-felt-in-downtown-miami-leading-to-county-hall-evacuation-train-delays\/\">among the places<\/a> where shaking was felt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">There were also minor reports of buildings shaking as far north as Tampa and Orlando. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The earthquake reportedly struck the waters near Cuba and there were no initial reports of damage on the island.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Local 10 meteorologist Brandon Orr said there is not a tsunami threat from the earthquake. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Watch Local 10 News or refresh this page for updates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Amanda Batchelor\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83776d46-011c-4018-ab.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Amanda Batchelor<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Amanda Batchelor is the Digital Executive Producer for Local10.com.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Brandon Orr\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/3a1748c1-7381-491f-b829-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Brandon Orr<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Brandon Orr joined the Local 10 News team in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0June 8, 2026 at 2:37 PM Updated:\u00a0June 8, 2026 at 5:20 PM A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck Monday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-300977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300977","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=300977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}