Stedum hit by earthquake with magnitude of 2.3

The village of Stedum in Groningen was hit by an earthquake with a magnitude of 2.3 and a depth of three kilometers shortly after 3 a.m. on Saturday

“Scary, it shook be awake”, a resident of Stedum said to RTV Noord. Multiple people said they felt their house shaking as a result of the quake. “I woke up by a loud drone and suddenly, my bed was moving. Super frightening”, a resident of the neighboring Westermden said.

Around 45 minutes before the shock a smaller quake with a magnitude of 0.9 on the Richter scale was registered by the KNMI.

Only one week earlier an earthquake with a magnitude of 2.0 hit Loppersum. At the end of March, the village of Wildervank was struck by an earthquake with a magnitude of 1.5.

The region is often subject to induced earthquakes due to gas extraction in the area. The strongest seismicity occurred in 2012 in Huizingen with a magnitude of 3.6.

Recente aardbeving in Nederland: op 19-06-2021 om 01:03:55 UTC (03:03:55 NL) vond bij #Stedum een #aardbeving plaats met een magnitude van 2.3 (reviewed). https://t.co/gvWsjxFPEp pic.twitter.com/uBGxXRiyYv

— KNMI (@KNMI) June 19, 2021