The head of Cuba's National Seismological Service, Enrique Diego Arango, confirmed that seismic activity in the country remains within normal parameters and that no earthquake has occurred that would warrant issuing any alert or alarm.

In an audiovisual posted on the Facebook page Tvsantiago, the doctor of sciences stated that the National Seismological Service is the first and only entity authorized to report a strong perceptible earthquake in Cuba, as it belongs to the National Center for Seismological Research and the Civil Defense General Staff. He emphasized that no other institution can issue earthquake warnings in the country.

Arango insisted that no strong earthquake has taken place on the island and that the seismicity recorded at the central station in Santiago de Cuba remains within normal parameters. "There is not even any indication of an earthquake swarm or anything that could suggest a future increase in seismic activity," he said.

He noted that around 3:00 p.m. local time, a false earthquake alarm was sent to numerous cell phones nationwide. He reiterated that no seismological event nor anything else in Cuba has occurred that would justify issuing such an alert. The scientist said he did not know the causes of the alarm, but suggested it may have been triggered by Android's system for seismic events in Colombia and Venezuela, which perhaps "for some reason activated in Cuba."

Earlier, the Civil Defense General Staff, after communicating with the National Center for Seismological Research, also denied the occurrence of an earthquake on Tuesday afternoon. Through social media, the Cuban institution indicated that the false alarm reached thousands of cell phones across the archipelago and noted that, in response to the fake news, people evacuated buildings in order to protect their lives.