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Why Leighton Buzzard has been hit with three earthquakes in two weeks

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A town has been hit by its third earthquake in two weeks as part of a potential 'swarm' of tremors. This morning's 3.0-magnitude quake in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, sparked a flurry of questions from concerned residents about the cause of the town's quakes.

One asked the British Geological Survey if fracking was responsible for the seismic activity. However, experts denied this and instead proposed the tremors could be aftershocks from the first 3.5-magnitude quake on September 8.

They also said they may be part of a 'swarm' of quakes, like the 'Surrey swarm' in 2018. A spokesman for the BGS told Mirror Online: "It isn’t fracking – there is no fracking taking place anywhere in the UK due to the moratorium. "One of our seismologists

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