UK hit by small earthquake, Twitter rolls out the jokes

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Kent in southeast England was hit by a 4.2 magnitude earthquake early Friday morning, with tremors felt across the region.

Residents in Canterbury, Margate and Whitstable felt rumblings as the minor quake rippled out from the epicentre 5 km south of Ramsgate.

The British Geological Survey, who normally tweet "weekdays 9 - 5," posted updates on the quake location and put it into context early on.

Here's seismicity map for this morning's 4.2 earthquake, 5km south of Ramsgate, Kent & approx 100km east of London pic.twitter.com/XaF9cRY4gm— BGS (@BritGeoSurvey) May 22, 2015

Today's 4.2 magnitude Ramsgate earthquake is approx 260,000 times smaller than the 7.8 #NepalQuake event— BGS (@BritGeoSurvey) May 22, 2015

They also published a "Felt Locations" map, indicating the areas in which people said they had felt something in an online questionnaire.

Here's our Felt Locations map based on first 250 felt reports from this online questionnaire http://t.co/mzAZINW6Y3 pic.twitter.com/bmYkfXtjMO— BGS (@BritGeoSurvey) May 22, 2015

Kent Police said there were no reports of injury or damage.

Tremors confirmed by @BritGeoSurvey as 4.2 on the Richter Scale. We've not received any reports of injuries or damage @kentfirerescue— Kent Police (UK) (@kent_police) May 22, 2015

As usual when the UK experiences minor quakes, Twitter was alive with jokes and wry observations.

No matter how much inconvenience the #KentEarthquake has caused....us kentonians will troop on x pic.twitter.com/WUfdA45C9k— IAMEatonsMess x (@Britishchickx) May 22, 2015

@block9rowz Hope you are all ok after the #KentEarthquake pic.twitter.com/Q7wBpCnddL— Dave Keegan (@david64k) May 22, 2015

Scenes of utter devastation here #staysafe #KentEarthquake pic.twitter.com/bt3oRniXAr— Sam O'Brien (@samobrien32) May 22, 2015

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