A magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck in the waters northwest of Cuba Monday morning — visible on USGS maps with seismic wave rings reaching toward the Florida Keys and the Florida peninsula — and its tremors were felt all the way to Central Florida, including near Walt Disney World, where we felt the shaking ourselves at the FLN desk roughly six miles from Disney’s Animal Kingdom.
The FLN team felt the shaking at our desk roughly six miles from Disney’s Animal Kingdom, and we were not alone. Reports flooded social media within minutes, with people across an enormous geographic area all describing the same thing: a rolling, wobbly sensation that lasted several seconds and left little doubt that the ground had moved.
The reports on Reddit’s r/Orlando community tell a striking story about just how widespread the tremor was. People reported feeling it in Championsgate, Horizon West, Lake Nona, Lake Mary, Maitland, Casselberry, Waterford Lakes, Clermont, Winter Garden, Dr. Phillips, College Park, downtown Orlando, Millenia, Kissimmee, Davenport, DeLand, Lakeland, Winter Haven, and right near Gaylord Palms — which sits just outside the Walt Disney World property line.
One commenter in the 4 Corners area near Kissimmee said the shaking was strong enough to rattle their TV on its stand. A resident in a third-floor Casselberry apartment said everything felt wobbly. In downtown Orlando, multiple people described their buildings swaying or their desks and computer monitors shaking.
As of this writing, the USGS has not formally confirmed a new seismic event tied to today’s reports, but seismic databases routinely lag real-time felt reports by several minutes to an hour. We are watching USGS data and will update this article the moment a confirmed event is logged. There are no reports of damage, injuries, or operational disruptions at Walt Disney World, Universal Orlando, or any other Central Florida theme park.
The USGS confirmed the quake struck at 2026-06-08 18:00:25 (UTC), with its epicenter in the Gulf of Mexico approximately 104 to 118 kilometers west-northwest of Mantua, Cuba, at a depth of 33 kilometers — positioned in the open water between Cuba’s western tip and the Yucatan Channel. The event was initially reported at magnitude 6.1 before being upgraded to 6.4. The USGS shake map shows seismic wave rings extending northward through the Straits of Florida toward Key West, which explains why so many Central Florida residents felt the rolling tremor within minutes of the quake striking.
M 6.1 – 104 km WNW of Mantua, Cuba from the USGS! This is just off the coast of Havana, Cuba.
Earthquake Tremors Felt Across Central Florida and Near Walt Disney World
