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Earthquake rocks Staffordshire: Residents report ‘quite a jolt’ as tremor felt across English Midlands
- People took to social media saying they had felt tremor at around 9pm today
An earthquake has been felt by residents in Staffordshire as people reported feeling ‘quite a jolt’ across the English Midlands.
Members of the public posted on social media that they had felt a ‘short sharp’ tremor this evening.
English model Leilani Dowding said: ‘Just felt a little earthquake. No it’s not a euphemism!! Uttoxeter area.. thought I was going mad and imagining it. But it’s all over local social media.’
A user named Paul Barrett added the tremor had caused ‘quite a jolt on the BGS Stoke seismogram’, which is used to record the motion of the ground.
One person said: ‘Pretty sure I just felt an earthquake in Staffordshire,’ while another added: ‘A short sharp earthquake in North Staffordshire just now.’
Another user said they thought the earthquake was one of their children falling out the bed and that it was apparantly rated 4.3 on the Richter scale.
One person added: ‘Whole house shook for a second and the sofa shuddered. I looked behind it to see if there was anything there lol.’
A Twitter user named Tenaciter said the earthquake ‘was very sudden’ and was ‘preceeded by a muffled sonic boom’.
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