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<\/p>\nThe epicenter of a 6.1 magnitude earthquake was reported Monday in the Gulf about 64 miles west of Cuba.<\/p>\n
The United States Geological Survey, which reported the quake, said the quake happened about 2:23 p.m.<\/p>\n
Some residents in Southwest Florida reported they felt something at the time of the quake.<\/p>\n
Jay Hasanain of Bonita Springs said he thought he was hallucinating.<\/p>\n
“You mean it was real,” he asked when WGCU confirmed the quake.<\/p>\n
He said his wife, Ofelia Phillips, felt it.<\/p>\n
“She said the building was shaking,” Hasanain said. ” She said the couch moved.” <\/p>\n
The couple live in a 23-story residential building in the south Lee County community.<\/p>\n
Several staffers at WGCU’s studios on the FGCU campus also reported feeling the shaking.<\/p>\n
The USGS also said there was a low likelihood of casualties and damage. <\/p>\n
According to the National Tsunami Warning Center and based on earthquake information and historic tsunami records, the earthquake is not expected to generate a tsunami. The center said there is no tsunami danger for the U.S. east coast or the Gulf states.<\/p>\n
Quake information<\/p>\n
Small earthquakes are not unusual in the wider Gulf basin, but a temblor strong enough to feel in the deep eastern Gulf near Florida is rare.<\/p>\n
That last happened in September 2006 when a magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck, it\u2019s epicenter about 250 miles west-southwest of Anna Maria Island. It was the strongest temblor in the Gulf in 33 years.<\/p>\n
People reported shaking lasting about 20 seconds. No damage or injuries were reported.<\/p>\n
The U.S. Geological Survey received more than 2,800 reports from people who felt it along Florida\u2019s Gulf Coast and as far north as Georgia.<\/p>\n
The quake was unusual. Being in the middle of the North American plate the Gulf doesn’t sit on a plate boundary, or fault line, where most earthquake activity is generated. Seismologists call those intraplate events, and why they occur is not very well understood.<\/p>\n
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Epicenter of 6.1 earthquake today located about 64 miles west of Cuba in the Gulf.<\/p>\n