Earthquakes in Cuba, 1927–2026
From 1927 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 6 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or more in or off Cuba. None reached magnitude 7: the strongest was a magnitude 6.8, twice: on May 25, 1992 (56 km SSW of Niquero, Cuba) and on November 10, 2024 (42 km SSW of Bartolomé Masó, Cuba).
The last 30 days · as of
USGS recorded no earthquake of magnitude 4.5 or more in the area the map frames in the last 30 days.
What the record holds
The deadliest was not the strongest: a magnitude 6.7 on February 3, 1932 (37 km SSE of Santiago de Cuba, Cuba), for which NOAA records 14 deaths. 4 earthquakes here in these years are on NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 6.8 on November 10, 2024 (42 km SSW of Bartolomé Masó, Cuba). NOAA lists 2 tsunamis that began in or off Cuba.
The events
- November 10, 2024Earthquake · M 6.842 km SSW of Bartolomé Masó, CubaUSGS · NOAA NCEI
- February 4, 2007Earthquake · M 6.2108 km NNW of Lucea, JamaicaUSGS
- May 25, 1992Earthquake · M 6.856 km SSW of Niquero, CubaUSGS · NOAA NCEI
- August 7, 1947Earthquake · M 6.660 km SSW of Guantánamo, CubaUSGS
- February 3, 1932Earthquake · M 6.737 km SSE of Santiago de Cuba, Cuba · 14 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
- February 3, 1932TsunamiSantiago De CubaNOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
Good to know
- An event counts for Cuba when it began inside its borders, or at sea within 100 km of its coast (so one can count for two neighbours), or further out, up to 300 km, where Cuba is the nearest country.
- USGS counts here start at magnitude 6: the catalogue’s smaller quakes thin out going back, where few instruments listened.
- NOAA lists significant events only: earthquakes that killed, did about $1 million of damage, reached magnitude 7.5 or intensity X, or raised a tsunami, and eruptions and tsunamis by like measures. Magnitudes before 1900 are its estimates from written accounts.
- Deaths are NOAA’s total for each event, wherever people died, its tsunami and fires included. A tsunami counts the dead its runup records give for this place: NOAA’s total for a tsunami includes its source quake’s.
- A tsunami from elsewhere counts where one of its runups killed or rose a metre or more.
- The map frames the box around Cuba, its neighbours’ quakes included, so its count runs higher than this page’s.
- Counted to October 19, 2026, as is the map. The last 30 days ask USGS again.
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