earthquakes have nothing to do with climate?
Earthquake?
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... Yeah I did deliberately word that to say how I understand why people in the UK would find it strange and unsettling. There's nothing cool about earthquakes.
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People in Stoke reporting it.
Glad to see that hasnt been forgotten. I slept through this quake yet again 
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No such thing as earth quakes in the UK. They're known as earth tremors. We had one in 1990 in Shrewsbury when I was back in primary school.
But hey ho, even Wiki thinks the Shrewsbury one was an earth quake.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_Bishop's_Castle_earthquake
But hey ho, even Wiki thinks the Shrewsbury one was an earth quake.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_Bishop's_Castle_earthquake
Be interesting to know what happened with this latest one - I'm wondering though its a bit of a stretch if its related to the massive ongoing activity off Iceland at the moment - while the magnitude is fairly moderate there have been over 2000 earthquakes in the swarm with I think nearly 40 at last count above 3 with some signs of the stresses having a knock on effect north and south so possible it causing things to settle a bit further out - it seems to be a bit unknown if it is tectonic or volcanic or a mixture of both despite being on a fault zone and seems to be moving from deep down to shallower depth but no measurable signs of magma movement currently.
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Yes 
Remember that the Richter scale is logarithmic on a scale of 10, so that a 6.0 quake is 10 times as bad as 5.0 quake, and a 7.0 quake is 100 times as bad as a 5.0 quake. So the 5.1 that we had Shrewsbury in 1990 was fairly insignificant. I remember the classroom shook for about 10 seconds and maybe a few books came off the shelves. We had to leave the building like it was a fire drill, but school resumed ok on the following day. The local radio was in hysterics, people saying "go make yourself a nice cuppa tea with 3 sugars to calm yourselves down". Nowadays, the DJ would say "go make yourself a nice cuppa tea with 1 sugar but beware of diabetes type II" 
Remember that the Richter scale is logarithmic on a scale of 10, so that a 6.0 quake is 10 times as bad as 5.0 quake, and a 7.0 quake is 100 times as bad as a 5.0 quake. So the 5.1 that we had Shrewsbury in 1990 was fairly insignificant. I remember the classroom shook for about 10 seconds and maybe a few books came off the shelves. We had to leave the building like it was a fire drill, but school resumed ok on the following day. The local radio was in hysterics, people saying "go make yourself a nice cuppa tea with 3 sugars to calm yourselves down". Nowadays, the DJ would say "go make yourself a nice cuppa tea with 1 sugar but beware of diabetes type II"