Earthquake rocks UK as homes 'shake' and people hear 'bang'
RESIDENTS in Staffordshire reported "rumbling" and rattling windows and doors as the area was hit by a 3.3 magnitude earthquake last night.1It is the largest of 21 earthquakes to hit the UK in the last two months, comfortably beating two 1.8 magnitude tremors felt on the Isle of Mull in May.
It falls some way short of the record earthquake in the UK, which was a 6.1 magnitude tremor in the North Sea, about 75 miles north east of Great Yarmouth, on June 7, 1931. Filey felt the strongest effects of that earthquake, with a church spire rotated, which was felt as far away as Surrey, Norway,
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