Enrique Arango, head of the SSNC, informed in a release that the event occurred at 7:29 hours (local time) at 19.89 degrees north latitude and 75.50 degrees west longitude, at a depth of 30 kilometers, 25 kilometers south of Caimanera, in Guantanamo province.
In a Cubadebate article published by Arango and RedCiencia scientific advisor Manuel A. Iturralde-Vinent this Monday, both experts confirm that one month after the 6.7-magnitude earthquake in Pilon municipality, 7,000 aftershocks have been recorded in the area near the epicenters, 132 of them were perceptible, with a magnitude of 2.5 and above, including one with a 4.1 magnitude.
The text highlights that “although the aftershocks may or may not be felt by people, the truth is that these tremors continue to affect large areas and continue to weaken infrastructure, especially the previously affected ones.”
It also points out that the strongest earthquakes in Cuba have occurred in Pilon and its surroundings in the last 90 years. The latest activity began on November 10, when the CENAIS station network registered two strong earthquakes about 40 kilometers southeast of Pilon in Granma province.
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