Two earth tremors in as many weeks might be enough to stir fears among northerners that something ominous is going on beneath their feet.

But seismologists' message to anybody who might be worried about the possibility of "the big one" north of the Wash is simple: "don't panic."

The British Geological Survey (BGS) recorded a 3.6-magnitude tremor in North Yorkshire at 9 p.m. on Monday. It followed another nearby quake of the same magnitude on December 21.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE7032FS20110104

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8237890/Earthquake-hits-northern-England.html

You Northern folk not having much luck just lately. Not something we get a lot of here in the UK so can we expect more, bigger even?

Keep your eyes peeled for the big dragon!

il just get my bog ripped up and faced towards wales

Ash

It's a case of "what will be, will be..."

More Tremors than Earthquakes but I take the point...
They are almost impossible to predict, & when we get them we cant do anything about them or what if anything they damage, we've had a few over the last 15 - 20 years or so varying in intensity, little damage to speak of... just the old planet creaking & groaning, I dont expect Armagedon but if it happens I'd like to experience it lol!

We live in "The North". We had quite a few earth tremors a few years ago, one after the other, and the cause was put down to the pile driving going on at the time for the City of Manchester stadium. We have had a few since as well. One of them affected one of our cats as well - she came upstairs for the first time when we had adecent sized tremor and has been more friendly ever since!
Having been in a proper earthquake in Taiwan some years ago, these are nothing to worry about!

With any luck a large canyon will open up from the Humber Estuary across to the Wirral and split the country into two halves; thereby allowing us to tell Whitehall to well and truly F*ck off, claim independence and become a republic in our own right.

They can have the Bankers, we'll keep what's left of the oil.

Couldn't have been that big I only live a measly 15miles from the epicentre and didn't get so much as a shudder.

probably to do with coldsnap the north east had it pretty bad. Not quite as bad as scotland but not far off.

I didn't feel anything.

Then again we can go out in the middle of an Arctic blizzard in nowt but shorts and a tee shirt and not feel the cold.

Radlet6 said:

With any luck a large canyon will open up from the Humber Estuary across to the Wirral and split the country into two halves; thereby allowing us to tell Whitehall to well and truly F*ck off, claim independence and become a republic in our own right.

They can have the Bankers, we'll keep what's left of the oil.

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one problem we might become scotland with these polititions

I didnt feel it was in the pub at the time. if these keep happening every week or closer i think i'd start to worry. but not worried at the moment.

Lol at the Cata trailer