At around 8.19 on Saturday 28th of April an earthquake measured 4.3-4.8 Richter shook Kent. We woke up with the sound that felt like a lorry hitting your house!
Suzanne and I were in bed when she woke me up and said what is that noise? I initially thought it was something like a bird or brick falling into our chimmney!!! We had no electricity for 45 minutes and we did not what was going on...... a text message read it was a bomb! terrorist attack??? !!! It could have been lot worse.....
The earthquake that damaged nearly 500 homes in the south east corner of Britain could have been on a far bigger scale, experts said last night.
Seismologists have been expecting a quake off the Kent coast for decades and feared a repeat of fatal tremors that struck in the past and registered 5.8 on the Richter scale.
Although houses in Folkestone, Kent, were damaged by Saturday's earthquake, which measured 4.3 on the Richter scale, only one person was injured, not seriously.
Roger Musson, of the British Geological Survey, said: "We've been waiting for an earthquake to happen on this structure for a long time. I've been very concerned about getting a repeat of the 1580 earthquake. If that had happened, we would have had a death toll that would have exceeded the death toll of all British earthquakes by a factor of five -- perhaps as many as 50 dead. If that fault is true to form, then it's good news because its got that out of its system."
