I just picked up this cracking video from Youtube. It’s England: We’re staying home.

(England failed to qualify for the European 2008 Football Cup)

Makes a change from all those times in the past where I found myself singing “We’re going home, we’re going home…”

Some more on this Earthquake:

According to the USGS, it was a magnitude 4.7 (Richter) earthquake centred approximately 30 miles south of Kingston-upon-Hull.

A link to full USGS details is here

Update 2:36am: Alternatively, according to the BGS, it was a 5.1, possibly 5.3 Update: Later revised back to a 5.2 in a BGS press-release. The BGS wesbite is here but go easy on clicking, they seem to be down under the load just now.

The thing is, as I can tell from various web forums, the quake was felt over pretty much the whole of England and some parts of Wales. Pardon me for being in awe, but that’s a lot of mass-in-motion

Apparently, it was felt strongly in Manchester, Leeds and Birmingham. Unfortunately, some sheeple from distant parts of the country are already phoning their favorite TV stations in the customary state of feigned distress and the news outlets are gearing up for a “The Day The Earth Shook” style newsgasm or two. No doubt there’ll be a couple of comparisons to other far, far, larger earthquakes due to various newscaster’s failure to grasp that the Richter scale is logarithmic rather than linear.

It’s not readily apparent if there has been any damage or injuries but most if not all UK structures should withstand a magnitude 4.7 earthquake assuming they’re properly designed (although I can think of a conservatory or two which might have fallen down ).