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The earthquake reached a magnitude of 5.3 on the Richter scale and woke most people in our county in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

The largest earthquake for nearly 25 years had its epicentre a few km north of听Market Rasen in Lincolnshire.

Damage to a chimney of a house in Leics

Listen: Your Tremor Views

Buildings were shaken across Leicestershire and Rutland and fortunately there was minor damage.

The fire service had around 11 reports of collapsed chimneys and numerous calls to the emergency services, mostly from people alarmed by the tremor which lasted for about 10 seconds.

But it was definitely a shaky night for many of you. Listen to what you had to say and read the news story...

Listen: 'Quake Impact Assessed

Dr Richard England, Lecturer in Geophysics and Head of SEIS-UK, Department of Geology at the听University of Leicester, said: "The 'quake is the largest since the magnitude 5.4 event which occurred on the Lleyn Peninsular in North Wales in 1984.

Listen to Richard as he explains what causes the tremors...

"A minor aftershock has been recorded by the British Geological Survey (www.bgs.ac.uk). Such aftershocks are not unusual, but further events are usually of lower magnitude and unlikely to be felt or have any effects on property.

"Earthquakes of this magnitude occur in the UK between every 20 to 30 years.

Unpredictable

"While it is not possible to predict the exact timing or location of earthquakes, by studying the frequency at which earthquakes of particular magnitudes occur it is possible to state that an earthquake of a particular magnitude is likely to occur within a given period of time.

"The UK is struck by 10's to 100's of minor earthquakes each year, but most are so weak that they are only detected by seismometers.

"Although the UK does not lie on a tectonic plate boundary, where most earthquakes occur, stresses build up in the crust beneath the UK because it is trapped and being shortened slightly between the mid-Atlantic ridge and the Alpine mountain range."