Manchester was hit by an earthquake last night.

A quake measuring 1.4 on the Richter scale hit Cheetham Hill shortly before 10pm on Wednesday night.

The British Geological Survey confirmed its sensors picked up the tremor near the loop on Collingham Street at 9.58pm.

Experts say it was around 3km below the Earth’s surface.

Some residents are reported to have felt the tremor.

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Beck Godfrey Tweeted: “Did we just feel an earthquake in North Manchester?”

It is the second earthquake to hit Cheetham Hill in less than four years.

In December 2012 a quake hit of a slightly smaller magnitude hit the borough less than a mile away in Smedley Road, near the junction with Wythburn Avenue.

The tremor measure 1.5 on the Richter scale, however it seemed very few residents felt it at the time.

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The latest quake is one of more than 2,000 quakes in UK territory since 2000.

According to the British Geological Survey published last year, there have been 1,161 recorded earthquakes on British soil over those fifteen years.

A major earthquake is one that ranks above seven on the scale.

The recent devastating earthquake in which thousands of people lost their lives in Nepal measured 7.8 on the Richter scale.