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A small earthquake has hit Cumbria and surrounding counties.People described hearing and feeling the earth moving for "well over a minute" just after 2300 GMT on Tuesday.The earthquake, which had a magnitude of 3.6, was felt in locations across Cumbria and in Lancashire, south-west Scotland, parts of Yorkshire, Northumberland and the Isle of Man.Police say there are no reports of injury or damage so far. The tremor was picked up by the US Geological Survey.People have contacted the BBC to say they felt the tremor in places including Barrow, Sellafield, Cockermouth, Windermere and Penrith.Cumbria Fire and Rescue service has also confirmed the quake.A spokesman said: "We have had no requests from members of the public. At the moment, we don't believe there is any structural damage."
I didn't even knew Cumbria existed.
Well, Sellafield is right there so I guess some people might have been worried.
Between 1950 and 2000 there have been 21 serious incidents or accidents involving some off-site radiological releases that merited a rating on the International Nuclear Event Scale, one at level 5, five at level 4 and fifteen at level 3. Additionally during the 1950s and 1960s there were protracted periods of known, deliberate, discharges to the atmosphere of plutonium and irradiated uranium oxide particulates. These frequent incidents, together with the large 2005 Thorp plant leak which was not detected for nine months, have led some to doubt the effectiveness of the managerial processes and safety culture on the site over the years.In the hasty effort to build an independent British nuclear weapon in the 1940s and 1950s, radioactive waste was diluted and discharged by pipeline into the Irish Sea.
