Earthquake in England


An Earthquake occurred at 0100 on Wedensday 27th February with an epicentre in North Lincolnshire, UK.

There were no deaths but 1 man was injured with a chimney pot falling through the roof on his legs in Barnsley.  

Sheffield was quite badly hit but the earthquake had diminished to around 4.8 on the Richter scale by then... the P waves doing minor damage.  The worst things to have happened were things falling of shelves and alarms of houses going off.  We will have to wait to see the damage to underground pipes, wires and the human infrastructure beneath our feet! 

 

BBC Earthquake Image

Source: BBCWebsite - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7266146.stm

 

This also might have effect on my training... don't know why, but I'm sure I can find some sort of reason.  Actually I might train harder so I'm fit enough to run away from the earthquakes next time... they only travel at 25000km/hr - no match for my sprinting skills!!