People in Wales may have felt the ground move yesterday after it was confirmed that an earthquake hit the north of the country. The quake had a magnitude of 1.0 on the Richter scale and happened at 6.43am on Monday April 4. The epicentre was located 2km west of Trefriw in Conwy, according to the British Geological Survey, at a depth of 7km.
This was not the first earthquake to hit the British Isles in recent weeks. Days earlier on March 31 a tremor with a magnitude of 0.5 was recorded at Clodock in Herefordshire and on March 30 Mablethrope in Lincolnshire had a quake with a magnitude of 1.1.
The last time an earthquake with a magnitude of 1 struck North Wales was Snowdonia during October 2021. Then a “big rumble sound” was heard by communities in the Conwy Valley and beyond - waking dogs and shaking sofas.
