{"id":3324,"date":"2026-06-08T19:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T19:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orlandorelocationreport.com\/?p=3324"},"modified":"2026-06-08T19:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T19:04:09","slug":"strong-earthquake-in-gulf-shakes-up-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orlandorelocationreport.com\/?p=3324","title":{"rendered":"Strong earthquake in Gulf shakes up Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>An earthquake off of Havana Monday afternoon was felt hundreds of miles away in Florida, shaking up residents from Miami to Orlando.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/orlandorelocationreport.com\/?p=3322\">War in the Middle East is flaring again. Here\u2019s how each side sees the stakes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The quake, which took place at 2 p.m. sharp, had an initial magnitude of 6.4 \u2014 since lowered to 6.1 \u2014 and took place 73 miles northwest of western Cuba, according to the U.S. Geological Service. It could be felt 310 miles from the epicenter.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the quake being estimated to have occurred 21 miles below the Gulf, the National Weather Service\u2019s Tsunami Warning Center said no tsunami was expected in Florida or Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>People in downtown Orlando, Winter Park, Davenport and Walt Disney World said on social media that they felt it. So too did people in Cape Coral, Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Tampa.<\/p>\n<p>The quake \u201cjust made our building shake in St. Petersburg FL. Our studio lights were shaking!\u201d posted X user @Mike_Clay.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/orlandorelocationreport.com\/?p=3320\">Central Florida Zoo welcomes two cougar cubs from South Dakota<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYo I think we just had an earthquake in Orlando and that is absolutely not supposed to happen,\u201d posted Bluesky user @makeitunclear.bksy.social.<\/p>\n<p>Amanda Dotten wrote on X, \u201cSarasota! Shook the whole house!\u201d while user @Baba_Tunde wrote, \u201cMiami Beach .. 16 stories up.. real shimmy thru the building, lasted 15-20 seconds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The quake was the largest off of Florida since a 4.0 magnitude quake struck off the Atlantic coast in February 2024.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A page on the USGS site titled \u201cIntensity vs. Distance\u201d estimated that locations more than 300 miles from the epicenter could have felt between a 2 and a 3.6 magnitude shake.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/orlandorelocationreport.com\/?p=3318\">The Kennedy Center drops \u2018Trump\u2019 branding as Bill Maher\u2019s Twain Award guests are revealed<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An earthquake off of Havana Monday afternoon was felt hundreds of miles away in Florida \u2014 and social media was quickly on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-weather"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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