A somewhat major earthquake–major due to the location–has just hit near London.. And with it, the nation and other locations around it were rocked and even violently so, according to some reports..
A “DRAMATIC, violent, jarring and jolting” earthquake has struck the UK near Kent, waking residents in the middle of the night with the shock of their lives.
The unexpected tremor was felt across Britain.
The British Geological Survey confirmed the quake struck at 2:52am British Standard Time with an epicentre 7km south of Ramsgate near Kent.
It measured 4.2 on the Richter scale.
Even more: Twitter lit up immediately with people telling their few-character type tales about the shaking at their own homes.. the fear they have about a quake in England..
I was in my first earthquake in 2011, and it was jarring, mostly because the land I lived in was not supposed to be hit with quakes. I’d expect the same feeling is taking place in the UK right now.. Londonites and Kent-ers may be shaking a more inside than outside …