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UK earthquake

Posted: 10:51 Thu 29 Jan 2015
by jdaw1
The UK enjoys a mild climate with little of the nasty temperamental ground-shakings that happen in far-away places. Quietly bourgeois.

Then this:
The BBC, in an article entitled [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31032930]Oakham earthquake recorded at 3.8 in magnitude[/url], wrote:An earthquake with a magnitude of 3.8 has been recorded in the East Midlands, the British Geological Survey has confirmed.

One person in Grantham, Lincolnshire, reported: "I could see rings in my glass of wine! A bit like in Jurassic Park when the T Rex chases the car!"
My goodness, rings in a glass of wine!

Next we’ll be hearing reports from near Derby of — gadzooks! — disturbed sediment in a Taylor 1970.
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Re: UK earthquake

Posted: 11:26 Thu 29 Jan 2015
by PopulusTremula
Another wildcatter out fracturing the earth's crust? Are my bottles at Vinotheque unharmed? Will pork pie production in nearby Melton Mowbray grind to a halt and if so, will TPF's northwestern piemaker be able to fill the void.

Re: UK earthquake

Posted: 12:11 Thu 29 Jan 2015
by djewesbury
PopulusTremula wrote:will TPF's northwestern pie maker be able to fill the void.
Ah, you mean the same piemaker who was seen exiting the Midlands a few hours earlier?
Very suspicious. 88)

Re: UK earthquake

Posted: 15:01 Thu 29 Jan 2015
by RAYC
Bishop's Strotford...?!

Re: UK earthquake

Posted: 15:28 Thu 29 Jan 2015
by djewesbury
RAYC wrote:Bishop's Strotford...?!
I blame Tom. An anomaly in the subterrain has been caused by too much cellar excavation, which also led to the letters on the road signs around Bishop's Stortford getting jumbled up.
Apostrophe judges: Does Bishop's Stortford have an apostrophe? If so, where?

Re: UK earthquake

Posted: 16:03 Thu 29 Jan 2015
by Glenn E.
I checked, the Seahawks are in Arizona practicing for the Super Bowl so it couldn't have been a BeastQuake.

Re: UK earthquake

Posted: 17:00 Thu 29 Jan 2015
by Andy Velebil
That wouldn't even be noticed here in the land of earthquakes. I didn't even get out of bed for the big Northridge quake in 1994, at magnitude 6.7

Re: UK earthquake

Posted: 21:26 Thu 29 Jan 2015
by Glenn E.
We had a small 2.8 earthquake here in Seattle (Kirkland) today, even smaller than this one in England. I was in a meeting and didn't notice it.

Re: UK earthquake

Posted: 22:36 Thu 29 Jan 2015
by AW77
The scale on the map is in kilometres. Isn't this unusal or do only the Americans still use miles?

Re: UK earthquake

Posted: 23:26 Thu 29 Jan 2015
by jdaw1
AW77 wrote:The scale on the map is in kilometres. Isn't this unusal or do only the Americans still use miles?
The UK is in-between in these matters. Scientists use metric; most people use imperial; some prefer picoparsecs.

Re: UK earthquake

Posted: 00:04 Fri 30 Jan 2015
by DRT
djewesbury wrote:
RAYC wrote:Bishop's Strotford...?!
I blame Tom. An anomaly in the subterrain has been caused by too much cellar excavation, which also led to the letters on the road signs around Bishop's Stortford getting jumbled up.
Apostrophe judges: Does Bishop's Stortford have an apostrophe? If so, where?
It depends how many Bishops are involved. Please clarify the requirement or turn off and reboot.

Re: UK earthquake

Posted: 00:08 Fri 30 Jan 2015
by DRT
For those not watching, there was a slightly smaller quake in Hampshire 24 hours earlier. If I am not mistaken, Hampshire is almost in "the south", which means this global threat is on the doorstep of the most ardent NIMBYs.

Re: UK earthquake

Posted: 07:39 Fri 30 Jan 2015
by PhilW
DRT wrote:
djewesbury wrote:
RAYC wrote:Bishop's Strotford...?!
Apostrophe judges: Does Bishop's Stortford have an apostrophe? If so, where?
It depends how many Bishops are involved. Please clarify the requirement or turn off and reboot.
William the Norman, then Bishop of London, bought the Stortford estate in 1060; hence Bishop's Stortford.