Members of the public said they felt the shaking of the earthquake
Parts of Powys felt the quake on Tuesday morning (Image: Western Mail)
An earthquake hit parts of Wales and England today with people reporting that they felt shaking. The earthquake magnitude was 2.7, hitting the UK in the morning of Tuesday, May 12 at 8.33am, according to Earthquake monitoring site Volcano Discovery.
The quake had a very shallow depth of 5km and was felt by some people near the epicentre in Powys. Very weak shaking could be felt in multiple areas of Powys as well as in Shropshire and Herefordshire.
One report of the shaking came from Rhayader whilst another report of light shaking came from a resident in Llandrindod Wells. For the biggest stories in Wales first sign up to our daily newsletter here
They said they felt a “boom that shook the house, then continued diminishing deep rumbling for 10 seconds.”
The areas affected by the earthquake in Wales included:
- Llanfair Caereinion, Powys
- Montgomery, Powys
- Carno, Powys
- Builth Wells, Powys
- Knighton, Powys
- Newtown, Powys
- Llanidloes, Powys
- Llandrindod Wells, Powys
- Rhayader, Powys
The earthquake was the strongest to hit this part of the UK in over three years. The last quake of equal or greater strength was in Ebbw Vale, near the present epicenter and had been a magnitude 3.7 earthquake on February 24, 2023.
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