{"id":298065,"date":"2025-12-04T05:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T05:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/298065\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T05:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T05:59:10","slug":"explosion-earthquake-rocks-lancashire-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/298065\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Explosion’ earthquake rocks Lancashire | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 3.3-magnitude earthquake<\/a> struck north-west England<\/a> in the middle of the night, waking up locals who reported hearing an ‘explosion’ which shook their homes.<\/p>\n

Data issued by the British Geological Survey (BGS) shows that the earthquake struck<\/a> off the coast of Silverdale at 11.23pm, on Wednesday, December 3, at a depth of 3km (1.86 miles).<\/p>\n

The quake was felt across the South Lakes and Lancashire, mainly within 20km of the epicentre, including Kendal and Ulverston, in neighbouring Cumbria, the BGS told Sky News.<\/p>\n

BGS data showed at least 13 earthquakes have been recorded in the United Kingdom since November 28.<\/p>\n

Despite there being around 200 to 300 earthquakes each year in the UK, detected by the BGS, only 20 to 30 of these are said to be felt by people. A few hundred smaller earthquakes are only recorded by sensitive instruments.<\/p>\n

Most of these earthquakes are very small and cause no damage.<\/p>\n

Social media users took to platforms to share how they felt the tremor.<\/p>\n

“Definitely felt this\u00a0#earthquake\u00a0in north Lancaster. We live near the West Coast Main Line and initially thought the rumbling was a train but then felt the shaking,” said one X user.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m in South Cumbria & my house shook!” another replied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 3.3-magnitude earthquake struck north-west England in the middle of the night, waking up locals who reported hearing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2659,309,59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-298065","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-earthquakes","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-gb","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-greatbritain","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}