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Magnitude 5.3 earthquake hits western Cuba's Pinar del Rio province

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Magnitude 5.3 earthquake hits western Cuba's Pinar del Rio province

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TL;DR

A magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck western Cuba's Pinar del Rio region, according to local reports. The earlier 6.1 quake off Cuba's coast on June 8 had no reported damage.

01 · THE DISPATCH

A magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck Cuba's western province of Pinar del Rio overnight, according to local reports. The epicenter was inland, in a rural district. There were no immediate reports of casualties or major damage. The tremor follows a magnitude 6.1 earthquake off Cuba's coast reported by the German Research Centre for Geosciences on June 8 — a BACKGROUND event with no known link — which also caused no reported harm. No further details or official alerts from Cuban emergency authorities have been published so far.

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