Earthquake Report (news)

and sounded like an explosion in some areas, rocking houses and rattling furniture and windows. But there were no casualties as Ken Reast reports. The first tremor came at around four o'clock this morning. It was strong enough to send some people running into the streets as they felt their houses shaking beneath them.

Spores of chimney pots fell down, but there was surprisingly little structural damage. Here in Carlisle, as elsewhere throughout the region, the emergency services found themselves dealing with a flood of calls from people woken up by the earthquake and not really sure what it was.

Bad shuddering and the household was shaking. I jumped out of bed and looked out of the wind and couldn't see anything. My husband ran downstairs and outside. And it's so hard to expect. The ex-dermure observatory, high up in Dunfisher in Scotland, duty officer Mr. Charles Carr was making himself a pre-dorn cup of tea when the quake struck.

The floor was trembling. I need to take a look at that.