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Some days, the weather just chooses to screw with your mind. Today is one of those days. As well as the blizzards that (hopefully) have you stuck at home with your feet up, the UK’s also experienced an earthquake big enough to knock stuff off shelves.
The ‘quake hit Loughborough with a magnitude of 2.9 on the Richter scale. That’s smaller than the 4.1 that struck in Leicestershire in 2001, and a helluva lot smaller than the tsunami-causing 8.9 that wreaked havoc on Japan in 2011. Still, according to the British Geological Survey, it’s “pretty big” by UK standards, and would’ve been powerful enough to shake the tacky ornaments off your mantelpiece or worse, wake you up.
What do you reckon? Is this the apocalypse? Global warming? Some Dan Brownian-mashup of the Illuminati, Scientologists and Ancient Egyptians at work? Of course, it could always be, y’know, coincidence. But my money’s still on those sneaky Scientologists. [Metro]
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Is the picture a before or after shot?
There was an earthquake today in Loughborough, causing thousands of pounds worth of improvements.
Come on. Who picked that cover picture for this story? Honestly, Giz becomes more like the Daily Mail every day. Used to be they nicked your stories, so what, you figured you’d nick their unfounded sensationalism?
It’s called humour.
It’s not just that he’s saying this on the Gizmodo website, but what’s more, he’s saying this on a Chris Mills article!
I thought it was the song by Labrinth, silly me.
That’s nothing, I remember the Feb 2008 Lincolnshire earthquake, 5.2 on the Richter scale, it sounded like a truck had hit our apartment block. The shaking caused a bit of plaster to come off the ceiling. There were even “I survived the 2008 Earthquake” t-shirts made
Yes, that could not possibly been a secret technodrome project, or can it? hmm
I think it’s ferrets!
BIG ferrets!
Maybe just a lot of ordinary sized ones
Oh, thank goodness for that, scared me for a minute there
Hmm indeed. There has been an awful lot of loud mysterious bangs in this area recently…
Tsk. The richter scale is so last century. Get wif da program. Moment magnitude is fashionable now
Tbh if it was centred on Loughborough then someone probably just knocked over the stack of WKD & Smirnoff destined for the Students’ Union….
Tesco has angered the equestrian empire and the stampede caused said earthquake… lets hope they don’t anger the Ferrets
I happen to live in Loughborough. Didn’t wake me up. Didn’t wake anyone up at work either who live in Loughborough or near by.
Forget the earthquake, Chris Mills has a new profile picture!
It’s been around for a few days, but yes, it is indeed new
I haven’t been around for a few days, so yes it IS new