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Teesside was shaken by an earthquake today - the biggest to hit mainland UK for almost 25 years.
People from across the area, including Middlesbrough, Guisborough, Redcar and Hartlepool, spoke of their shock at being shaken from their beds by the 1am tremor.
The epicentre was near Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, and measured 5.2 on the Richter scale. One man was injured in Barnsley when a chimney collapsed and fell into his bedroom.
Cleveland Police control room was inundated with more than 200 calls. Cleveland Fire Brigade also received numerous calls but it appeared the region escaped any serious damage.
One of the UK’s 140 seismic monitoring stations is at Cassop, near Hartlepool, which recorded 5.2 on the Richter scale.


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i live in hemlington me and the wife were watching tv wen we felt the bed start to shake and wardrobes move it lasted about 10 sec but felt a lot longer just before 1 am my dog startrd barking then at 101am it hit