Earthquake in England!
We’ve just had a small earthquake in England - which although wasn’t huge, it was like a big big lorry driving past the side of your house.
It happened a few minutes before 1am on 27th February and there is no mention of it on Sky, BBC News or any other of the online news websites.
There could be complete cities flattened across the UK - but none of these websites have any update. Perhaps I’m expecting too much for things to reported that quickly online - 15 minutes later I suppose may be a bit quick if they need to validate any reports before it gets published.
I’d say it was about a 3 or 4 on the richter scale and lasted about 5-10 seconds - although it had a few seconds build-up too where I thought a lorry had come to park next to me!
UPDATE: I’ve just seen a site appear on Google which details that the earthquake was a 4.7 and 6 miles underground… The co-ordinates are 53.32N, 0.31W which looks to be near to Lincoln in North-East England… More info here and map below. Initial mention has just also appeared on the BBC News website, but remember where you heard it first!
Some more info can be found on another blog at http://johnleach.co.uk/words/archives/2008/02/27/300/
