A 6.1 magnitude earthquake west-northwest of Cuba on Monday afternoon caused tremors felt across Florida, reaching as far north as Jacksonville.<\/p>\n
In Lake Worth Beach, Miriam Blanco Sharkey felt the shaking in her home and then noticed a mirrored door moving.<\/p>\n
Video above: Buildings evacuated, rides stop after earthquake off coast of Cuba rocks Florida <\/p>\n
“It was very shocking. It was wild. I thought I was going crazy. So, I asked my son, ‘Do you feel that, or is it just me?'” Sharkey said.<\/p>\n
Jennifer Witkowski, who was in her office in Jupiter, also felt the tremors.<\/p>\n
“For about 30 seconds, I felt this shaking, and I could literally feel the building shake,” Witkowski said.<\/p>\n
The shaking was felt across the state, as far north as Jacksonville.<\/p>\n
In Miami, some buildings were evacuated as a precaution.<\/p>\n
The United States Geological Survey attributed the tremors to the earthquake near Cuba.<\/p>\n
Dr. Shimon Wdowinski, a geophysics professor at Florida International University, said most earthquakes in Cuba happen to the south of the country.<\/p>\n
This one was north of Cuba and therefore closer to Florida, allowing the shockwaves to reach the state.<\/p>\n
Video below: Major earthquake off coast of Cuba rocks Florida; shaking reported at Disney World<\/p>\n
“A building responds by shaking, and the upper part moves a little bit more than the lower part, so people can feel that,” Wdowinski said.<\/p>\n
Wdowinski noted that while the shaking was unusual for Florida, it was far too minor to worry about.<\/p>\n
Don’t tell that to Jennifer Witkowski.<\/p>\n
“Hurricanes I can deal with,” she said. “Earthquakes, not so much.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 6.1 magnitude earthquake west-northwest of Cuba on Monday afternoon caused tremors felt across Florida, reaching as far…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-301014","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\/301014","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=301014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}