Earthquake

[Pegasus]

Take care underground in The Dales folks - a 3.3 magnitude quake was recorded last night - might have shifted a bit of the underground about

 

[TheBitterEnd]

I was just dozing off and it rattled the wardrobe.

SILVERDALE, LANCASHIRE

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[alanw]

North Lancaster, less that 12km away. I turned my bedroom radio off at 23:10, not aware of the earthquake at 23:23 at all. I must have gotten off to sleep very quickly.

 

[Lankyman]

I used to live in Scotforth in the 2000s (south Lancaster) and recall a quite strong quake that felt like a big lorry trundling past on the road.

 

[snebbit]

We're in Caton just outside Lancaster, sounded like a loud bang under the house then around 5 seconds of shaking the bed. Not 'heard' an earthquake like that before! I thought it was an old coal mine collapsing or something

 

[ChrisJC]

I felt it near Peterborough. Very gentle.

Chris.

 

[Goydenman]

my daughter in law lives in Caton and it felt like the house shook she said

 

[Lankyman]

It definitely got people's attention in the Silverdale area

Earthquake of 3.3-magnitude shakes homes in north-west England

Lancashire residents say the 3.3-magnitude tremor felt like "an underground explosion", but there are no reports of damage.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[ChrisB]

It was magnitude 3.3 which isn't small and isn't big either, but in this case was only 3km down, which is quite shallow. So the effects were stronger, over a smaller area. It reached intensity 5 in the most affected areas.

 

[undergroundHP]

I have been down Lancaster hole and around Fall pot, Stake pot ( upper routes) today (5th).
Nothing obvious or new down there from the quake.

 

[Fulk]

I live near Kendal and had gone to bed by the time the earthquake struck; I didn't notice anything




. . . . . although the Earth did move under me.

 

[alanw]

Another one, a bit smaller at mag. 2.3

SILVERDALE,LANCASHIRE

The British Geological Survey provides up-to-date information on recent and historical earthquakes, educational resources, and seismic hazard services

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DATE	19/12/2025
ORIGIN TIME	05:03:08.2 UTC
LOCATION	54.159 -2.852
DEPTH	3 km
MAGNITUDE	2.3
LOCALITY	SILVERDALE,LANCASHIRE

 

[paul]

Not just a bit smaller - about 10 times smaller as it's a logarithmic scale.

 

[Ian Ball]

I didn't know that!

 

[martinr]

Not just a bit smaller - about 10 times smaller as it's a logarithmic scale.

.... and about 32x weaker too

The magnituide of the quakes differed by 1 (3.3 compared to 2.3)

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I live less than 2 miles from these quakes (we've had 3 in total). I didn't notice the first, the second was very very weak. But oddly enough the sound of the 2.3 this morning woke me up.