AN EARTHQUAKE struck Anglesey last night (October 29), as on resident said they heard a sound "like thunder".

The quake measured 1.3 on the Richter scale, and the British Geological Survey recorded its epicentre in Llanfigael.

The time of the quake was given as 11.27pm, at a depth of 12km.

One resident, on the North Wales Storm Watch Facebook group, said they heard a sound "like thunder with a bang nothing like past quakes that we have had here also sounded like it was in the sky".