A minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Warton in United Kingdom. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -2.7084 West, latitude 54.1459 North, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/12/25 / 2025-12-03 23:23:32 / December 3, 2025 @ 11:23 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000rff7. Id of event: us7000rff7. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:23:32 / 11:23 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Manchester (c. 395 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Bradford (c. 299 300 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Preston (c. 190 700 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Huddersfield (c. 149 000 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Blackpool (c. 143 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Heckmondwike, Longsight, Ashton-under-Lyne. Close country/countries, United Kingdom (c. 62 348 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

Questions or comments?

What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 3 km E of Warton, United Kingdom.

Copyright © 2025 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.