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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Susie Beever

Blackpool hit by earthquake that sounded like rattling train with furniture shaking

Residents in Blackpool have been hit by a tiny earthquake, following tremor warnings over Liz Truss's previous U-turn on the fracking ban.

The seaside resort was struck by a miniature earthquake on Friday night, with reports of furniture shaking and a noise like a rattling train.

Coming in at 1.5 on the Richter scale and traced to 2km beneath the earth's surface, the tremor's magnitude was luckily not enough to cause significant damage.

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