A magnitude 7,7 earthquake rocked the Caribbean between Cuba and Jamaica on Tuesday, triggering a tsunami warning in the region, raised an hour after it was emitted, and evacuating buildings to Miami. "The tsunami threat linked to this earthquake has passed and there is no longer any risk," said the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.
The powerful 7,7 magnitude earthquake that shook the Caribbean between Cuba and Jamaica last Tuesday caused the evacuation of several buildings in Havana. Cuban media explained that it was felt in several provinces of the island. "The earthquake was noticeable in many provinces, such as Guantanamo, Santiago de Cuba, Holguin, Las Tunas, Cienfuegos, Havana, Pinar del Rio and the municipality of Isla de la Juventud, according to many witnesses via social networks", a indicated the official Cubadebate news portal, without immediately reporting damage or injuries.
The epicenter of the earthquake was located at sea, 140 km southwest of the Cuban city of Niquero, at an estimated depth of ten kilometers, said the American Institute of Geophysics (USGS), which revised upwards a first estimate of magnitude 7,3.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, which also monitors other seas, issued a tsunami warning in the process. "Dangerous tsunami waves are possible on the coasts within a radius of 300 kilometers from the epicenter of the earthquake," he said in a bulletin.
But the head of the Cuban Seismology Service then told Cubadebate that there was "no danger of a tsunami" on the island.
For its part, the Prefecture of Saint-Martin said in a statement "that the risk of tsunami on the island was not current"._AF
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