An earthquake rocked the north-west of England last night which felt like ‘an underground explosion’.

The 3.3 magnitude tremor struck shortly after 11.23pm and was felt across Lancashire and the southern Lake District .

The Birtish Geographical Survey believes the epicentre was just off the coast of Silverdale, Lancashire at a depth of 1.86 miles.

The towns of Kendal and Ulverston would have felt most of the quake, being within 12 miles of the epicentre.

Residents told the BGS it ‘felt like an underground explosion” and was “so powerful it shook the whole house’.

The Volcano Discovery website, which also collects information on earthquakes, received more than 1,100 reports from people who were in the area at the time.

But most reports detailed ‘light’ or ‘weak’ shaking.

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