A British Geological Survey team installing a monitoring station near Gatwick. Image: BGS
AN EARTH tremor in Cumbria was detected by the British Geological Survey.
According to the organisation it happened on Saturday at 4.11am in the Irish Sea off Barrow-in-Furness.
It measured 0.8 magnitude.
The organisation has asked for people who felt it to fill in an online survey.
Go online to: earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/earthquakes/recent_events
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