{"id":138958,"date":"2018-06-10T03:21:48","date_gmt":"2018-06-10T03:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/earthquake-near-hull-and-grimsby-felt-100km-away\/"},"modified":"2018-06-10T03:21:48","modified_gmt":"2018-06-10T03:21:48","slug":"earthquake-near-hull-and-grimsby-felt-100km-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/earthquake-near-hull-and-grimsby-felt-100km-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake near Hull and Grimsby ‘felt 100km away’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A 3.9-magnitude earthquake centred in north-east Lincolnshire has reportedly been felt up to 60 miles (100km) away.<\/p>\n

The British Geological Survey (BGS) said it happened at 23:14 BST on Saturday with the epicentre in Grimsby at a depth of 11 miles (18km).<\/p>\n

It was felt mainly in Lincolnshire, and Hull, the BGS added.<\/p>\n

It comes nearly a decade after the 5.2-magnitude earthquake in Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, which was felt widely across England and Wales.<\/p>\n

Independent organisation European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said it had received reports from people 100km from the epicentre who had felt the tremor.<\/p>\n

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The BGS said it had received reports including how "the whole house shook for a couple of seconds", "heard a rumble with a simultaneous trembling", "the bed started to shake", "the radiator jolted" and someone who "thought it was a lorry crashing outside".<\/p>\n

However, it added that such earthquakes were not uncommon in the UK and happened about every two years.<\/p>\n

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Many people went on social media to ask what it was they had just felt.<\/p>\n

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The largest earthquake in the UK this year took place in Cwmllynfell in south Wales on 17 February and registered a magnitude of 4.6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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