M 5.5 in Cuba on 08 Feb 2026 12:00 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1523489
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 19.8899 , -74.371
Event Date: 08 Feb 2026 12:00 UTC
08 Feb 2026 07:00 Local
Exposed Population: 20 thousand in MMI V
Inserted at: 08 Feb 2026 12:15 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.1 (Cuba)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000s799 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (2),