Jessica Merson of Wellingborough was woken by the earthquake.
The 27-year-old said: "I was woken up by the violent shaking of the bed and the rattling of the door on the door frame.

"By the time I had come to, it had stopped.
"I ran through to my one-year-old son's room and thankfully he was ok and undisturbed.

"My husband Steve checked the house but everything was fine, and we guessed it had been an earthquake.

"It was very scary, and quite a big one measuring over five on the rictor scale."


Megan Hayes, 19, of Wellingborough, said: "I am emailing you to tell you that I felt the earthquake last night in Wellingborough. I was jut dozing off to sleep when all of a sudden my room started shaking, it was like being in a simulator for an earthquake.

"It didn't fell real. I only felt the earthquake for a few minutes, my younger brothers got up and shouted what was happening. I can not believe that we have experienced an earthquake!
Hope my experience is valid to you."


Colin, of Centre Parade, said;
"What a night. I thought the roof was going to collapse could hear the wood beams creaking, bed shaking and that rumble sound, i jumped out of bed and out of my skin and met the rest of my family on the anding, and we went out the front door but no-one else in the street seemed to stir? But the birds on our house were singing. Do you think some areas of houses felt it more than others. Still shook up over it shows how weird this planet really is."


Tanya Richards, of Denmark Road, Rushden, said:"I was just dropping off to sleep, when my bed started shaking and I could hear my daughter's bunk bed banging against the wall (she wasn't in it), the bunk bed stopped a couple of seconds after mine did.

"I thought the cats were messing about on it lol, but when I checked they were looking at me as if to say 'mum what was that' lol.

Two pheasants were shrieking from the trees and my dog was going frantic. The bed was shaking and i thought she had come into the bedroom and knocked the bed i didnt think of an earthquake, just wonderd what it was.so we let her out and she was still charging about ,was a very eerie
sort of night, Jackie Austin


Karen Beakhouse, of Corby, said:

"Yes I was woken up with a massive sound. My perfume was moving all over the place on the dressing table. There was 2 lots of noises, the first I thought it was my son falling out of bed, the second was quite scary as my parrot was squawking and banging his cage I actually thought my house was being broken into. My husband slept through it, at one point he woke up and said it was the wind. I was really baffled.

Then when I put the radio on in the morning I heard that it had been a tremor I said to my husband told you it was something more than the wind, he just laughed.


Robert Mullen, 63, of Brambleside in Kettering said:

"I heard a lot of rumbling and felt a tremor.

"It woke me up but it didn't really bother me.

"I experienced a similar tremor a few years ago.

"There wasn't any damage to the house and I soon went back to sleep."


Diane Capon, from Finedon, thought it was a lorry driving past which had shook her house and didn't realise it was a tremor until she heard it on the news. She said:

"I live on a main room and we get lots of lorries going past which sometimes shake the foundations.

"This one woke me up and I thought, this is a bit serious. I thought it had come too close to my cottage.

"It was only this morning that I realised it was a tremor when I heard it on the radio.

"I found it quite funny."


Victoria Foley, of St Alban's Close in Kettering, said:

"I woke up to find my bed shaking and my first thought was that it was one of my children.

"I was very confused and it took me a while to work out what was going on. It was quite frightening.

"It didn't wake my children up."


Alan Cooke, 74, of Chestnut Avenue in Kettering, said:

"I woke up and my bed was shaking and the radiator was rattling.

"I said to my wife, did you feel that? But she hadn't felt anything, she's a heavy sleeper.

"I realised what it was immediately - it's the 4th time I've experienced an earthquake.

"It wasn't the worst one I've experienced - when I was a lecturer at Tresham Institute in Corby, I was teaching on the top floor and the building swayed."


Bryan Goosey, 76, of Braemar Close in Kettering, said:

"It woke my partner up and she woke me up, saying, 'what was that noise?'

"But I had slept through it."


Stuart Cleaver, of Lawrence Close in Kettering, experienced an earthquake in Japan a few years ago which measured 6.5 on the Richter scale.

He said:

"This one felt like just a tremor compared to that one.

"The one is Japan went on for a lot longer and was a lot more severe.

"I woke up last night and wondered what was happening.

"I got up to check everything was okay in the house."


A 99-year-old woman at Country View Nursing Home in Warkton had to be taken to hospital because she was so frightened by the tremor.
A matron at the home, who did not want to be named, said:

"She was so terrified, she got herself into a bit of a state so the staff called 999 and she was taken to hospital as a precaution.

"We're hopeful she will be out of hospital today.

"The tremor shook the whole home but the staff went round to each resident to make sure they were okay.

"It did frighten them."


Cheryl Ansell, 34, Noble Avenue in Irthlingborough, said:

"It woke the children up and they were really frightened, they were crying.

"It wasn't a nice experience.

"I've never experienced anything like it.

"I was really frightened and din't get back to sleep until 3am."


Bryn Morgan, of Brambleside in Kettering, said:

"I thought it was someone trying to break in.

"The windows shook and the roof tiles shook.

"As long as anybody didn't get hurt, I thought it was quite exciting. It was lovely."


Jane Parker, Woodlands Road in Weldon, said:

"It felt like someone picked up my house and shook it.

"i was still awake because I was reading and I thought, what's happening?"


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