A small earthquake shook Falmouth and Penryn last night with the equivalent force of a single stick of dynamite.
The tremor, which measured 1.3 on the Richter scale, was felt across the two towns and emanated from a point just south of Argal reservoir according to the British Geological Survey.
Julian Bukits, from the geoscientific body, confirmed that the earthquake had "a magnitude of 1.3ML" and took place "in the Falmouth area last night at 10.44pm".
Hannah Rickard heard a "rumble noise" and even contacted the police to find out the cause.
Keri Valentine described the tremor as a "strange sonic boom noise".
"I think aliens have just landed in Falmouth," Chloe Skinner said, while Debbie Wetherell said: "What was that loud bang over Falmouth? The house shook. Sounded like Concorde used to colliding with its own noise emissions."
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