THE largest earthquake to hit the UK in 24 years was felt across Worcestershire in the early hours of this morning.

The earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale happened just before 1am waking people from their slumber.

The quake's epicentre was near Market Rasen, in Lincolnshire, but the tremors were felt across the UK.

Seismologist Dr Brian Baptie of the British Geological Survey (BGS) said: "This is a significant earthquake for the UK and will have been widely felt across England and Wales."

West Midlands Ambulance Service said it received only two calls across the region about the earthquake overnight - and both of the calls came from the Birmingham area.

Spokesman Murray MacGregor said: "When staff in the Emergency Operations Centres felt the earthquake they expected a significant number of calls. Thankfully that was not the case and there don't appear to have been any injuries."

The BGS records about 200 earthquakes in the UK every year. Only about 25 of those are actually felt by people in the affected area.

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