Britain Rattled By 4.7 Earthquake

MSNBC ^ | February 26, 2008 | Reuters

[Myrddin]

I speak English, gibberish and jargon.

You're well equipped for modern life. Perhaps you can lend a hand when the great orator of the RAT party begins spewing more of his gibberish. Thus far it just seems to be empty platitudes. Surely there is a deeper meaning.

[Myrddin]

[Bender2]

Re: Bump while I google “Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch”

Google replied: "Did you mean: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch"

I replied "yes" and it sent me to: http://llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.com/ which begins:

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.com is the longest single word (without hyphens) .com domain name in the world. It was registered by Internetters on 21st October 1999.

This Welsh town actually exists and its name translates as "The church of St. Mary in the hollow of white hazel trees near the rapid whirlpool by St. Tysilio's of the red cave".

For brevity, it is understandable that many of the locals simply refer to their village as "Llanfair" www.llanfair.com or "Llanfair PG" or "Llanfairpwll" which, of course, makes for easier typing and is faster to pronounce.

Whew! I'm wore... out!

[Myrddin]

The Romans drove the Druids onto the Isle of Anglesey and slaughtered all of them. That is the dark history of the island. The train station is a real place and a tourist attraction.

[Southbound]

Pesky is right! If you read up on the New Madrid quakes of the winter of 1811-12 (there were at least three, maybe four), they were estimated at magnitude 7.8 to 8.8, depending on which source you’re looking at. Largest quakes in the conterminous U. S. in the last 300 or so years....

[Winniesboy]

Didn’t know England was prone to earthquakes?

In fact Britain gets about 3 tremors a year in the magnitude 3-4 range (barely noticeable). The most powerful recorded was magnitude 6.1, centred under the North Sea, in 1931.

[FostersExport]

I felt this some 190-odd miles south of the epicentre. My bed just shook briefly. I realised it must have been the ‘quake when I turned the news on this morning.

They’re now saying it measured 5.3. Certainly not the strongest ‘quake ever, but interesting enough for somewhere that hardly ever gets them.

[chessplayer]

Here we go. Global warming caused it.

“Dr. Drew Peacock, a scientist from the UN-sponsored Forum on Advanced Research in Tectonics, said that the continual reduction in the polar ice caps as a direct result of global warming have caused a change in the distribution of pressure across the Earth’s crust which may have contributed to last night’s event in UK.”

[the invisib1e hand]

“Dr. Drew Peacock, a scientist from the UN-sponsored Forum on Advanced Research in Tectonics, said that the continual reduction in the polar ice caps as a direct result of global warming have caused a change in the distribution of pressure across the Earth’s crust which may have contributed to last night’s event in UK.”

Seems about as plausible as saying the gold rush caused earthquakes in california, what with the "change in the distribution of pressure across the Earth's crust" that all those people moving out there caused .

People like this should go back into their little caves. Who invited all these idiot psychos out of the woodwork, anyway?

[x_plus_one]

The muzzie hordes have shaken up everything in GB.

[Da_Shrimp]

It isn't - just a sign of the times.

Rubbish.

We get minor earthquakes fairly frequently. It comes with being close to a plate edge.

There was a similar one 5 years ago, just after we'd moved into our current house. This was the worse one for 25 years, that's all. Nothing that odd or 'end-times' claptrap about it.

[AD from SpringBay]

Nothing that odd or 'end-times' claptrap about it.

Well - if I'm wrong then it is just claptrap. Been wrong before, I'm sure I'll be wrong in the future. But have you given much thought about what's going to happen if you're wrong?

[Da_Shrimp]

Not really.

Geology is geology and this earthquake is perfectly normal.

[Stayingawayfromthedarkside]

I was sleeping in the top bunk during that as well, but out in Moreno Valley. I woke up, freaked out a bit, then went back to sleep. That is amazing your cousin slept thru that, being so close to the epicenter.

[null and void]

They were on a node of the standing waves echoing back and forth in the valley sediments. No damage at their house, reinforced concrete structures a mile to either side destroyed.

Luck of the draw...