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Cuba is located in an area with several active fault systems which produce on average about 2,000 seismic events each year. [5] While most registered seismic events pass unnoticed, the island has been struck by a number of destructive earthquakes over the past four centuries, including several major quakes with a magnitude of 7.0 or above.
Geography of Cuba Sierra Maestra Viñales Valley. Cuba is located 77 km (48 mi) west of Haiti across the Windward Passage, 22.5 km (14.0 mi) south of The Bahamas (Cay Lobos), 150 km (93 mi) south of the United States (Key West, Florida), 210 km (130 mi) east of Mexico, and 140 km (87 mi) north of Jamaica.
Central America is usually defined as consisting of seven countries: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama. Within Central America is the Mesoamerican biodiversity hotspot, which extends from southern Mexico to southeastern Panama.
Journal of Petroleum Geology 17, 2, 243-245. 1994 Iturralde-Vinent, M. 1994. Interrelationship of the terranes in western and central Cuba—Comments Tectonophysics 234: 345-348; 1994 Iturralde-Vinent, M., 1994. Cuban Geology: A new plate tectonic synthesis: Journal of Petroleum Geology, 17 (1): 39-71. 1993 Luperto Sinni, E. & M. Iturralde ...
Geologic formations of Cuba (4 C, 20 P) Fossils of Cuba (28 P) M. Meteorites found in Cuba (2 P) Mining in Cuba (1 C) O. Oil fields of Cuba (1 P) P. Paleontology in ...
During the Eocene the trough was the site of a subduction zone which formed the volcanic arc of the Cayman Ridge and the Sierra Maestra volcanic terrain of Cuba to the north, as the northeastward-moving Caribbean Plate was subducted beneath the southwest-moving North American Plate, or as some researchers contend, beneath a plate fragment ...
Geologic formations of Cuba — in the Caribbean. Subcategories. This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total. C. Cretaceous Cuba (8 P) J.
Cuba is located east of the Yucatán Peninsula (Mexico), south of both Florida and the Bahamas, west of Hispaniola (Haiti/Dominican Republic), and north of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. Havana is the largest city and capital. Cuba is the third-most populous country in the Caribbean after Haiti and the Dominican Republic, with about 10 million ...