Did you feel that? USGS confirms 6.1 earthquake with impacts felt in Manatee
If you felt shaking in Manatee County on Monday afternoon, you weren’t imagining it.
A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck near Cuba around 2 p.m., with reports of shaking surfacing across Florida, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The earthquake occurred about 65 miles west-northwest of Mantua, Cuba, at a depth of about 6 miles, according to the USGS.
The Manatee County Public Safety Department later confirmed the earthquake in a social media post.
“Yep, you felt it!” the department wrote. “U.S. Geological Survey has confirmed an earthquake with a magnitude 6.1 off the coast of Cuba around 2 p.m.”
The department said no tsunami threats to the United States had been issued and that officials were actively monitoring Gulf buoys “out of an abundance of caution.”
Bradenton residents react to earthquake tremors
Social media users in the Bradenton area were among those posting that they felt the shaking.
“Thank you for confirming I’m not losing my mind. I really did feel it!” one commenter wrote.
“Thought I was going crazy!” another person commented.
One local resident said she was studying in bed when she noticed objects around her moving.
“Yeah, I was laying in my bed studying and I felt shaking, and I looked over at my monitors on my desk and they were shaking,” she wrote in a social media post.
The National Weather Service in Key West said it received multiple reports of ground shaking associated with the earthquake.
There is no tsunami threat associated with the earthquake, according to the National Weather Service.
This story was originally published June 8, 2026 at 2:48 PM.
