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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.’
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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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