JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Monday wasn’t a typical start to the week for some Florida residents.
After feeling their homes and windows rattle and vibrations beneath their feet, many took to social media, confused.
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The reason, it turns out, came from tectonic plates shifting hundreds of miles away.
A 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck Cuba in the southern Gulf around 2 p.m., sending shockwaves across parts of Florida, stretching up to Northeast Florida.
News4JAX commenters reported feeling shockwaves near Tinseltown, Baymeadows, downtown and beyond.
“I’m downtown, and some employees on our higher floors felt it as well. They described it as minor, but it gave them a brief sense of vertigo. I didn’t feel it personally,” a News4JAX Insider said.
“Felt it on the fourth floor in Jax. A jolt, the whole building shook for a second,” one person commented.
On Facebook, people shared similar experiences with residents from Amelia Island to Gainesville.
“All the way up in Jacksonville Florida, felt it and I live in Philips Pointe Apartments right here. On the 6th floor and yes it shook us all the way up. It’s 10 stories tall!!!!” Dawn Richey posted.
“I felt something thought I was tripping… had me looking out the window to see if the trees was moving,” Quetta Hall said.
The City of Jacksonville’s Emergency Preparedness Division said you weren’t imagining it.
The Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Communications Center received several calls from residents reporting the shaking.
“The good news is there are no reports of damage associated with this earthquake, and there is no tsunami threat,” JaxReady wrote on Facebook. “Not something we experience every day in Jacksonville, but definitely enough to get people’s attention.”
If you want to report your experience, visit: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/tellus.