“The biggest earthquake in the UK for nearly 25 years has shaken homes across large parts of England.
People in Newcastle, Yorkshire, London, Manchester, the Midlands and Norfolk felt the tremor just before 0100 GMT.
An elderly man suffered leg injuries when a chimney collapsed in Wombwell in South Yorkshire, emergency crews said.
The British Geological Survey (BGS) said the earthquake was of the magnitude of 5.3 and the epicentre was near Market Rasen in Lincolnshire.”
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February 27, 2008 at 6:48 am
mercsmoon
I’m in barnsley, I wrote a poem about the experience
October 22, 2008 at 9:03 pm
jordan
Grab onto something
My furniture is now f&cked
Oh, how the earth moved