Debris from a building damaged by Hurricane Rafael covers the street in Havana, Cuba. Photo: Ariel Ley/AP.
Venezuelan officials expressed their solidarity with the brother people and government of Cuba following the two strong earthquakes reported on Sunday, November 10, in its territory. The earthquakes had magnitudes of 6.0 and 6.8, which shook the entire island and generated moments of anguish in the population just hours after Hurricane Rafael passed.
The information was released by Venezuelan Minister for Foreign Affairs Yván Gil through a statement posted on his Telegram account.
In the statement, Venezuela and its people reaffirm their admiration for and firm will to provide unconditional support, once again placing themselves at the service of the brotherly people of Cuba to provide any necessary assistance.
The full unofficial translation of the statement is below:
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela expresses its absolute solidarity with the brother people and government of the Republic of Cuba following the two strong earthquakes recorded today in its territory, with magnitudes of 6.0 and 6.8, which have shaken the entire island and caused moments of anguish among the population.
In these times of adversity, Venezuela and its people reaffirm their admiration and firm will to provide unconditional support and once again place themselves at the service of the brotherly people of Cuba to provide any necessary assistance.
The Bolivarian government remains attentive to the cooperation plans that Cuba determines to organize aid and reiterates its willingness to provide all the solidarity support of our nation in this difficult situation.
Caracas, November 10, 2024.
Two powerful earthquakes (6 and 6.8 magnitude on the Richter scale) hit eastern Cuba on Sunday, followed by several aftershocks, reported Cuba’s National Center for Seismological Research.
According to the Cuban National Seismological Service’s network of stations, an earthquake was reported as perceptible at 11:49 local time, at a depth of 10 kilometers (km) with a magnitude of 6.8 on the Richter scale, located 32 kilometers southeast of Pilón, in the eastern province of Granma.
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An hour earlier, the agency reported a perceptible earthquake in the same town at 10:50 local time, at a depth of 10 kilometers with a 6.0 magnitude.
According to the institution’s director, Enrique Arango, the epicenter of the first of these events was located approximately 47 kilometers south of the Pilón municipality at a depth of 14.2 kilometers.
(Últimas Noticias) by Carlos Eduardo Sanchez
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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