Overview
- Cuba reports about 45% of its thermoelectric units back online—7 of 16—after more than 24 hours without power, with service still unstable and widespread cuts continuing.
- Havana’s recovery advanced to roughly 44.5% of customers reconnected by Tuesday, up from an initial 4.9% shortly after the collapse, though many neighborhoods remain without steady electricity.
- Authorities are using localized microsystems in the hardest-hit eastern provinces of Santiago de Cuba, Granma and Guantánamo to keep hospitals, water systems and telecoms running while full reintegration lags.
- A nighttime earthquake was recorded near the Guantánamo coast at 00:28 local time, rated magnitude 6.0 by Cuba’s CENAIS and 5.8 by the USGS, with aftershocks reported and no significant casualties or damage.
- Officials say the cause of the total disconnection is being probed as Cuba contends with a long-running power crisis driven by aging plants and fuel shortages compounded by reduced Venezuelan oil and U.S. restrictions.