People in South Wales were abruptly woken last night as a 4.6 earthquake shook houses.
A small earthquake was recorded just before midnight ’I felt the earthquake and was really concerned. It made our house shake, it was loud and the rumbling from it was clearly felt.She added: ‘The village is in Cwm Ebbw Vale. An old mining village used to lots of action in the height of coal mining. This is not a wake up call we wanted.’
The epicentre of the earthquake was around 12km from Abertillery at a depth of around 2km – which is said to be ‘very shallow’.Aysia Bibi wrote: ‘Earthquake in wales!! Just shook me out of bed.’ The Time for Geography account added: ‘We had an earthquake last night in south Wales. Our team in Cardiff were woken by the shaking. Did anyone else feel it?’
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