The Allotment Lady was rocking and rolling Saturday morning! I hope the chicks are not hurt, seriously The quake was south of her.
The tremor - measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale - struck just after 8.15am and people across the county reported that the ground and their properties shook and there was damage to some buildings.
Kent Fire and Rescue Service said it had taken more than a 100 emergency calls and was dealing with "several incidents".
A spokesman said: "We have had calls from people saying their chimneys have fallen down, large cracks in people's houses."
The emergency services were inundated with calls from concerned householders and fire crews attended a number of incidents. Electricity and gas supplies to houses in some parts of Kent were cut off.
The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has reassured householders that damage will be covered. The ABI's Nick Starling said: "These sudden, unexpected, and unwanted events are exactly what insurance is designed to cover."
The earthquake was concentrated around the Folkestone area, but people in parts of East Sussex, Essex and Suffolk are also reported to have felt the tremor.
A spokesman for the British Geological Survey said 4.3 on the Richter scale was a level where structural damage would occur and that this was the largest eart tremor in Britain since an earthquake in Dudley in 2002.
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Before this I had no idea earthquakes happened in GB.
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