Earthquake in the Irish Sea

Two earthquakes have been recorded in the Irish Sea causing tremors on land nearby.

Two earthquakes have been recorded in the Irish Sea causing tremors on land nearby.

The strongest was a 3.3 magnitude tremor with the epicenter off the coast of Blackpool at 10.58am, which was 5km deep. An earlier earthquake at 6.36am was 2.4 magnitude and was some 3km deep according to the report by the earthquake monitoring organization. The epicenter of both was in the Irish Sea.

It was recorded just before 10am on Sunday and was felt in Fleetwood, Blackpool, Poulton-le-Fylde and Thornton-Cleveleys, Lancashire, and in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria.

An earlier quake at around 5.30am, at a depth of almost two miles (3km), measured 2.4 on the Richter scale.

Its epicenter was about 25km west of Fleetwood and tremors were felt in Fleetwood and Barrow-in-Furness, the British Geological Survey said.

Twitter users said they felt the ground move beneath them, particularly in the north-west of England.

A slightly larger earthquake was recorded in the Irish Sea in May, which was felt in parts of Ireland and north Wales.

The 3.8-magnitude tremor occurred nine miles (15km) away from Abersoch in Gwynedd, Wales.

People as far away as Dublin, Wexford, Wicklow and Kildare said they felt it at the time.

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