{"id":301080,"date":"2026-06-09T09:04:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T09:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/301080\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T09:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T09:04:14","slug":"after-minor-earthquake-in-the-mountains-cubas-quake-felt-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/301080\/","title":{"rendered":"After minor earthquake in the mountains, Cuba&#8217;s quake felt in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(WLOS) \u2014 While western North Carolina experienced a very minor earthquake early Monday morning \u2014 only a 1.7 magnitude \u2014 there was a much stronger quake off the coast of Cuba later that afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wlos.com\/news\/nation-world\/61-magnitude-earth-in-cuba-quakes-felt-south-florida-10-km-deep-104-km-northwest-mantua-cuba-no-damage-tsunami-threat-florida-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">6.1-MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE HITS CUBA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cuba&#8217;s earthquake happened at 2 p.m. and registered a magnitude of 6.1, making it a moderately strong earthquake.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A graph showing traits of different earthquake magnitudes. (WLOS)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/3f6beca4-93c2-4f78-b61f-603164b7c80c-Outlook3lnrpfug.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A graph showing traits of different earthquake magnitudes. (WLOS)<\/p>\n<p>The quake was just over 16 miles below the surface, and there were no reports of injuries or damage. No tsunami occurred.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wlos.com\/weather\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NEWS 13 WEATHER<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was felt as far away as northern Florida, where residents reported light shaking.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"{p}A map shows the location of a 6.1 magnitude earthquake in Cuba that was felt as far away as northern Florida. (Photo: WLOS){\/p}\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/a938e6e2-72fb-4237-a605-073bb7bd3b7d-Outlookq2j2ur02.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A map shows the location of a 6.1 magnitude earthquake in Cuba that was felt as far away as northern Florida. (Photo: WLOS)<\/p>\n<p>Earthquakes in the Gulf are rare but have become more frequent in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/eventpage\/se60505673\/executive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">USGS<\/a>, the earthquake in western North Carolina happened around 6:36 a.m. near Weaverville at a depth of about 3.3 miles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(WLOS) \u2014 While western North Carolina experienced a very minor earthquake early Monday morning \u2014 only a 1.7&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-301080","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\/301080","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=301080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}