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Witness location : Larsnes (Norway) (35 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 26 min

Roof beam shaking

Witness location : Selje (Norway) (38 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 2 min

Sismo

Witness location : Vestland (County) (Norway) (39 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 47 min

Shaking

Witness location : Herøy (Norway) (41 km E from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 46 min

Loud noise like dynamite explosion. Woke up in bed, which was shaking. Intense the first second, then it faded off.

Witness location : Fosnavåg (Norway) (41 km E from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 36 min

I could feel everything shaking. It felt like a bomb went off.

Witness location : Herøy (Norway) (41 km E from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 44 min

Sudden and conciese movement, 5 seconds

Witness location : Sande (Norway) (41 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 36 min

at 21.50.
Lasted some seconds. Our dog noticed it before me. Our house trembeled some.

Witness location : Fosnavåg (Norway) (41 km E from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 41 min

We heard A loud bouldering noise, and then we felt the house shake hard enough that we ran outside to see if the mountainside was coming down.

Witness location : Herøy (Norway) (41 km E from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 44 min

Lasted about 20 seconds

Witness location : Stad (Norway) (41 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 123 min

It was ok

Witness location : Herøy (Norway) (42 km E from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 42 min

I thoght it was an explosion outside, and I could feel the house and the floor shaking. I have never experienced anything like this before.

Witness location : Larsnes (Norway) (42 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 37 min

No doubt what happend

Witness location : Fosnavåg (Norway) (42 km E from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 48 min

Very loud noise!

Witness location : Fosnavåg (Norway) (42 km E from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 58 min

Big vibration, followed with small "Rumble" like effect

Witness location : Fosnavåg (Norway) (42 km E from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 69 min

Kjente det godt i heile huset.

Witness location : Fosnavåg (Norway) (42 km E from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 35 min

It was like a big truck, maybe it last for 15 seconds. Right now it was a smaller one

Witness location : Vanylven (Norway) (43 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 44 min

By the seaside of Vanylvsfjorden. Also felt across the fjord at Leikanger, in Stad. https://goo.gl/maps/ASNNg4ticyPvtfpv6 No damages. More like a big rumbling, thought it was an explosion in the basement. We ran outside and then it got quiet.

Witness location : Fosnavåg (Norway) (43 km E from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 28 min

Loud bangong noise followed by shaking and rumbling. Felt the earthquake «roll» through the house. Lasted for at least 30sec.

Witness location : Herøy (Norway) (43 km E from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 23 min

I felt the earthquake very well. I was standing on the floor looking out of the window when the house suddenly started shaking. My body started shaking also and I did not have any belts on my pants, so my pants fell to the floor.

Witness location : Herøy (Norway) (48 km E from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 21 min

House shook, not so much that anything in the shelves moved, it felt like it lasted only a short time maybe one second, but it was quite a large rumbling noise.

Witness location : Fiskå (Norway) (48 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 23 min

Strong, long lasting, felt the house shaking, felt it beneath my feet, and in my body through the sofa, buldering sound. The dog was really scared. My daughter said from upstairs: "jordskjelv?", meaning "earthquake?". "I think so", I replied. Have felt earthquake like rhis one before, so I was quite certain that was what it was. I was not scared, because we don't have dangerous earthquake-activity in Norway.

Witness location : Ulstein (Norway) (49 km E from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 45 min

weak rumble

Witness location : Kinn (Norway) (49 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 47 min

Felt it quite good.

Witness location : () (50 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 59 min

Loud shaking and long rumble after

Witness location : Leikang (Norway) (50 km E from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 10 min

Strong and long

Witness location : Ulsteinvik weather pws station (Norway) (50 km E from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 46 min

Big bang

Witness location : Herøy (Norway) (51 km E from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 18 min

Did feel this good. Glasses and stoneware in cabinets where making noise. Lamps swaying

Witness location : Ulstein (Norway) (52 km E from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 41 min

Was watching TV and could hear a sound resembling a big truck driving past just outside the house.

Witness location : Ulstein (Norway) (52 km E from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 42 min

Just sound, no vibration.

Witness location : Ulsteinvik (Norway) (52 km E from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 104 min

Low boulderin for appr 45 sekond

Witness location : Ulsteinvik (Norway) (52 km E from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 41 min

Loud sound outside and small vibrasjon in the house.

Witness location : Vanylven (Norway) (53 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 35 min

It was a loud noice before we felt the quake

Witness location : Deknepollen (Norway) (53 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 43 min

Felt the house trembeling, and heard glasses in the cabinet touching together.

Witness location : Ulsteinvik (Norway) (53 km E from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 29 min

Not scared just wondering

Witness location : Fiskå (Norway) (56 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 25 min

Loud noise. Felt the house shaking.

Witness location : Fiskå (Norway) (56 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 27 min

Some noise and a bang where the house shaked.

Witness location : Hareid (Norway) (60 km E from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 48 min

Short. 1-2 seconds.

Witness location : Giske (Norway) (63 km E from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 18 min

Shaking in windows

Witness location : Ørsta (Norway) (64 km E from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 32 min

Felt the house vibrating slightly. Like a strong wind.

Witness location : Giske (Norway) (69 km E from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 37 min

Sounded more like a distant helicopter a few seconds

Witness location : Ørsta (County) (Norway) (69 km E from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 21 min

just felt it, and the sofa vibrated a littlebit

Witness location : Stad (Norway) (73 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 38 min

Never felt this strong earthquake before...

Witness location : Florø (Norway) (88 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 67 min

Sound, no shaking

Witness location : Sandane (Norway) (98 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 9 min

Loud bouldering noise and a small tremble

Witness location : Sandane (Norway) (99 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 33 min

Shaking in the ground, and a loud buldering noise. I emediatly got up wondering What happened.

Witness location : Stryn (Norway) (119 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 22 min

We hear with my wife how is shaking our furniture in livingroom.

Witness location : Balestrand (Norway) (150 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 45 min

Rumbling sound and we could feel the house shaking

Witness location : Oslo (Norway) (423 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 59 min

Oslo is Ok