On the afternoon of June 8th 2026, millions of people in Florida felt the ground motion from a magnitude 6.1 earthquake which struck. Yet, this earthquake did not originate near Florida, but rather far away off the western coast of Cuba. The Gulf of Mexico is not all that seismically active, so this earthquake is a peculiarity which will be explored in today's video through the knowledge and analysis of a geologist. Thumbnail Photo Credit: Google Earth, Image Landsat / Copernicus, Data LDEO-Columbia, NSF, NOAA, Data SIO, NOAA, U.S. Navy, NGA, GEBCO. This image was overlaid with text, and then overlaid by GeologyHub made graphics (the image border & the GeologyHub logo). If you would like to support this channel, consider using one of the following links: (Patreon: http://patreon.com/geologyhub) (YouTube membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYeGh5VML5XPr5jYnzh3J6g/join) (Gemstone & Mineral Etsy store: http://prospectingarizona.etsy.com) (GeologyHub Merch Etsy store: http://geologyhub.etsy.com) Google Earth imagery used in this video: ©Google & Data Providers This video is protected under "fair use". If you see an image and/or video which is your own in this video, and/or think my discussion of a scientific paper (and/or discussion/mentioning of the data/information within a scientific paper) does not fall under the fair use doctrine, and wish for it to be censored or removed, contact me by email at [email protected] and I will make the necessary changes. Various licenses used in sections of this video (not the entire video, this video as a whole does not completely fall under one of these licenses) and/or in this video's thumbnail image (and this list does not include every license used in this video and/or thumbnail image): Public Domain: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/ CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode Sources/Citations: [1] U.S. Geological Survey [2] Davison Ian, Pindell James, Hull Jonathan, The basins, orogens and evolution of the southern Gulf of Mexico and Northern Caribbean. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, Volume 504, Pages 1 - 27. (2021). doi: 10.1144/SP504-2020-218, CC BY 4.0. [3] King, R.C., Backé, G., Tingay, M.R., Hillis, R.R., & Mildren, S.D. (2012). Stress deflections around salt diapirs in the Gulf of Mexico. [4] Hansen, T. H., Clausen, O. R., and Andresen, K. J.: Thick- and thin-skinned basin inversion in the Danish Central Graben, North Sea – the role of deep evaporites and basement kinematics, Solid Earth, 12, 1719–1747, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-1719-2021, 2021. CC BY 4.0. [5] N. A. Yassir, A. Zerwer; Stress Regimes in the Gulf Coast, Offshore Louisiana: Data from Well-Bore Breakout Analysis. AAPG Bulletin 1997;; 81 (2): 293–307. doi: https://doi.org/10.1306/522B4311-1727-11D7-8645000102C1865D 0:00 Widely Felt Earthquake 0:56 Geologic Setting 2:03 Fault Line 3:03 Mid Ocean Ridge 4:06 Tectonic Inversion 4:37 Aftershocks