Houses shook and windows “jiggled” as the earthquake spread across North Staffordshire

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Houses were reportedly “shaking” and windows and doors “shaking” on Wednesday night (28 June) when an earthquake struck North Staffordshire.

The British Geological Survey issued a seismic alert just before midnight yesterday saying the tremor occurred at around 8.21pm with a magnitude of 3.3mm and lasted about 14.1 seconds.

The survey said the quake was mostly felt by residents in the village of Tian, ​​but many people reported feeling the quake from across Stoke-on-Trent and in towns such as Cheadle and Stafford.

People reported feeling a “rumbling before a loud bang” around 9.20pm, while others said there was a “clattering” of windows and doors.

The survey wrote on Twitter: “BGS has received several reports from residents across the region, particularly from within about 20km of the epicenter.

Reports described “initial clatter and then a bang”, “it felt like a shunt, as if something had hit something” and “all the windows and doors rattled”.

The survey alert reads:

Seismic Alert: TEAN, STAFFORDSHIRE Jun 28, 2023 20:21 UTC 3.3 mil. Origin time: 20:21 14.1 seconds UTC. Long/Long: 52.922°N / 1.950°W. GRID REF: 403.4 km E / 336.1 km N. Depth: 7.3 km. MAGNITUDE: 3.3 ml. Location: Taine, Staffordshire. Density: 3 EMS

British Geological Survey

Many people have taken to social media to spread information about the earthquake.

One person writes: “It definitely felt like an AutoXeter – didn’t realize it was an earthquake thought the crash was something of a neighbor’s construction work.”

Councilor Abe Brown, a member of the Mere Park ward of Stoke-on-Trent City Council, also posted about the incident.

She wrote: “I think we just had a little earthquake…”

Another said: ‘I felt the rumbles here in Stafford. I thought I was fantasizing about it at first but the wife felt it too.

“Yeah here in Tean’s house the whole thing shook.”

Another confirmed that they felt the earthquake: “In Tian, ​​too, they felt it shaking the house.”

An earthquake is what happens when two blocks of earth suddenly slide across each other.

The surface from which you slide is called a fault or fault plane.

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