An impactful 6.8 earthquake struck Cuba on Sunday amid a grueling recovery from recent power failures and damaging hurricane activity, officials said. According to the United States Geological Survey, the earthquake "occurred as the result of predominantly strike-slip faulting at shallow depth near within the Septentrional-Oriente Fault Zone."

A 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of eastern Cuba on Sunday, causing material damage in several regions as the island continues to recover from widespread blackouts and the impact of two hurricanes over the past few weeks.

An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.0 has been recorded off the Western Australian coast. Geoscience Australia recorded the quake offshore in the Southern Ocean off the coast of the D’Entrecasteaux National Park – about 380km south of Perth – in WA about 10.45am local time on Thursday. The depth of the quake was about 10km.