Earthquake: – – Was worried and surprised

On the night of Monday there was an earthquake located near Voss. The earthquake had a magnitude of 3.3. No reason to be anxious, according to the Department of Geosciences.

– I was suddenly awakened by a loud bang with a violent sound. I thought at first that it had to be a landslide, says Trygve Lyshagen Tømmerås, resident in the center of Voss, to Dagbladet

– Not unusual

– We first received a message at 4.22am from a man in Vaksdal who had felt the earthquake. He described it as a clear shaking in the house and as a kind of rumbling, says Berit Marie Storheim, senior engineer at the Department of Geosciences at NTB.

She says the earthquake is located at Mjølfjell, which is east of Raundalen in Voss municipality in Vestland county.

– The strength is calculated at 3.3, says Storheim.

– 3.3 is a small earthquake in the world context. In Norway, it is not unusual for earthquakes of magnitude 3.3. We have quite a few tremors in this force in Norway, she says.

– Worry

Lyshagen Tømmerås is originally from Sarpsborg, but has lived in Voss for the past ten years. He has also lived in Guatemala.

– We occasionally experienced earthquakes in Central America, but never something that lasted so long and was as loud as this, he says.

He estimates that the quake lasted about one minute.

– I thought at first that it had to be a landslide or a landslide of some kind. But I realized as soon as I stood on the floor that it was an earthquake, he says, and adds:

– You feel it all over your body if there is an earthquake. My boyfriend was also quite surprised and worried.

High sound

NTB has also received reports from people who have felt the quake and who say that the quake was well felt in the ground – and that they woke up to it.

Storheim encourages people who have felt the earthquake to register it at skelv.no.

According to the European Earthquake Center (EMSC), the earthquake must have occurred 22 kilometers from Voss, writes VG.

– I didn’t understand anything. There was a terribly loud noise and the house shook. Then it was just as if the goods train disappeared further, says Anne Grethe Aalandslid, who lives in Voss, in a message to the newspaper.

Storheim adds that people have no reason to be afraid or anxious.

– No, there is no reason to be anxious. We don’t expect any damage to buildings or infrastructure, she says.