At 15:57 (local time) this Thursday, the Cuban National Seismological Service Network Station reported a perceptible earthquake located at 23.39 North and 80.99 West, at 73.7 Km Northeast of Varadero, with a depth of 20 km and with a magnitude of 4.9 on the Richter scale, according to Griselda Despaigner, specialist of the Central Station of the aforementioned institution.<\/p>\n
So far, there have been reports of visibility in Havana, Matanzas and Villa Clara provinces.<\/p>\n
In Havana the quake was felt in the area of Jose Antonio Echeverria \u200b\u200bPolytechnic Higher Institute (ISPJAE by its Spanish acronym), so students and teachers were evacuated.<\/p>\n
The floor began shaking. Nothing fell down, only a vibration was felt at about 4:05 pm. Students of the highest building of the Civil Engineering Faculty evacuated themselves, Raquel Quiroga River\u00f3n, who is in charge of Protocol activities in the institution, told Trabajadores newspaper.<\/p>\n
There have not been reported human or material damages.<\/p>\n
Experts from the National Center for Seismological Research of Cuba are working in processing additional information on these events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
At 15:57 (local time) this Thursday, the Cuban National Seismological Service Network Station reported a perceptible earthquake located at 23.39 North and 80.99 West, at 73.7 Km Northeast of Varadero, with a depth of 20 km and with a magnitude of 4.9 on the Richter scale, according to Griselda Despaigner, specialist of the Central Station […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3071,"featured_media":21055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13917],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[33726,6934],"class_list":["post-21063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cuban-environment"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n