
Tea cups rattled at breakfast-time this morning as an earthquake struck the English Channel - and almost went unnoticed. Some witnesses appeared to doubt whether the small tremor was anything more than a heavy lorry rumbling by on the south coast. Others based in Worthing, West Sussex, questioned whether the 3.9 magnitude quake was simply a trick of their imagination.
But according to the British Geological Survey (BGS), it is the biggest to strike a 16 mile region in 300 years. People living in parts of West Sussex said buildings shook for a few seconds at around 8am.
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