THE first earthquake in mid Cheshire for two years has been recorded, but it appears nobody had noticed.
According to the British Geological Survey, the earth shook under Winsford at 6.38am on Friday, July 24.
The BGS Earthquake Seismology Team is the UK's national earthquake monitoring agency and lists all registered earthquakes in the UK online.
The team recorded the small quake, which was pinpointed to co-ordinates around the area of the Woodford Park Industrial Estate, at a magnitude of 0.8, which is said to be very minor and at a depth of seven kilometres.
According to the Richter Scale – a scale from zero to 10 used to tell the power of earthquakes – people tend to report feeling the ground tremble at 2.
Although the BGS has been operating for 185 years, earthquakes have only been recorded online since 2008 and the online record of the past 12 years shows that this is the first earthquake of any magnitude in Winsford in that time.
It is two years since the last earthquake was recorded in the mid Cheshire region, with 0.9 magnitude quake recorded in Crowton in August 2018.
The last earthquake in Cheshire likely to have been felt by residents occurred in Knutsford in August 2013 and had a maginute of 2.1.
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