MIAMI, United States. — The National Seismological Service of Cuba reported this Wednesday a perceptible earthquake in the province of Granma.
The telluric movement, registered at 16:30 (local time), had a magnitude of 4 degrees on the open Richter scale.
The network of seismological stations on the island indicates that the hypocenter of the earthquake (five kilometers deep) was located at 19.80 degrees north latitude and -76.99 degrees west longitude, 30 kilometers southeast of the town of Pilón.
The National Seismological Service of Cuba received perceptibility reports in the municipalities of Bartolomé Masó and Pilón, province of Granma. So far no material or human damage has been reported.
This is the fourth perceptible earthquake that has been recorded in Cuba so far this year. The previous one, of magnitude 3.5 degrees, was felt on February 24 in the province of Guantánamo, located in the eastern end of the country.
Previously, two earthquakes had been registered, both measuring 5.5 degrees. One was notified on February 8 and had its epicenter to the southwest of the Isla de la Juventud special municipality; while the other occurred on the 16th of the same month, 79.3 km southeast of the Maisí municipality, in Guantánamo.
Cuba reported 13 perceptible earthquakes during 2022, a year in which the seismicity in the country remained within normal parameters. Most of this seismic activity was related to the Oriente fault, the main area of these movements linked to the plate limit to the south of the eastern region of the country.
The largest magnitude earthquakes recorded in Cuba were that of May 25, 1992, which had a magnitude of 6.9 degrees, with perceptibility reports in the eastern half of the country, and that of January 28, 2020, of magnitude 7. ,1 which had its epicenter in the vicinity of the Cayman Islands and which was felt throughout the country.
