Spalpeen

Just got this email from my dad:

“I’ve just been on the phone - I was waiting for your mother to bring me some tea (a rare event) twenty minutes ago when I felt an even rarer event - the room shook for about five seconds - I thought first that somebody had dropped something heavy in the attic but it kept on happening. I rang the environment agency and they had a report from someone in Romney Marsh - about twenty miles away [from Bridge], so not mining subsidence - must be an earthquake somewhere! Your sister’s rather scared…”

There’s sparse amounts of documentation of earthquakes in Kent on the web. Apparently a church in sandwich was damaged by one in the 16th Century. There was also apparently a large earthquake in Kent in the 14th Century.

UPDATE: Sounds like it was real. Sky News has a quick blurb on “earth tremors”, and the BBC is reporting that power is out, one person’s house slid for 10-15 seconds, and that one person thought it was “quite violent”