Originally posted by stephnachia:
Weird. I never knew the UK had earthquakes...
Glad you're okay.
You could always add "experience earthquake" to your list and then cross it off to get the satisfaction of accomplishing something. Ha! 
There was a smaller one on the South coast last year that somehow did a lot more damage, not quite sure why. Britain is generally pretty stable geologically, but for that reason most buildings aren't built with resistance to earthquakes in mind, so you get a lot of collapsed walls and chimneys, damaged roofs, etc. My house is coming up to 200 years old, there has been a lot of repairing and reinforcing, which may help to explain why there wasn't any damage.
