UK earthquake

[jdaw1]

The UK enjoys a mild climate with little of the nasty temperamental ground-shakings that happen in far-away places. Quietly bourgeois.

Then this:

An earthquake with a magnitude of 3.8 has been recorded in the East Midlands, the British Geological Survey has confirmed.
…
One person in Grantham, Lincolnshire, reported: "I could see rings in my glass of wine! A bit like in Jurassic Park when the T Rex chases the car!"

My goodness, rings in a glass of wine!

Next we’ll be hearing reports from near Derby of — gadzooks! — disturbed sediment in a Taylor 1970.

[PopulusTremula]

Another wildcatter out fracturing the earth's crust? Are my bottles at Vinotheque unharmed? Will pork pie production in nearby Melton Mowbray grind to a halt and if so, will TPF's northwestern piemaker be able to fill the void.

[djewesbury]

will TPF's northwestern pie maker be able to fill the void.

Ah, you mean the same piemaker who was seen exiting the Midlands a few hours earlier?
Very suspicious.

[RAYC]

Bishop's Strotford...?!

[djewesbury]

Bishop's Strotford...?!

I blame Tom. An anomaly in the subterrain has been caused by too much cellar excavation, which also led to the letters on the road signs around Bishop's Stortford getting jumbled up.
Apostrophe judges: Does Bishop's Stortford have an apostrophe? If so, where?

[Glenn E.]

I checked, the Seahawks are in Arizona practicing for the Super Bowl so it couldn't have been a BeastQuake.

[Andy Velebil]

That wouldn't even be noticed here in the land of earthquakes. I didn't even get out of bed for the big Northridge quake in 1994, at magnitude 6.7

[Glenn E.]

We had a small 2.8 earthquake here in Seattle (Kirkland) today, even smaller than this one in England. I was in a meeting and didn't notice it.

[AW77]

The scale on the map is in kilometres. Isn't this unusal or do only the Americans still use miles?

[jdaw1]

The scale on the map is in kilometres. Isn't this unusal or do only the Americans still use miles?

The UK is in-between in these matters. Scientists use metric; most people use imperial; some prefer picoparsecs.

[DRT]

Bishop's Strotford...?!

I blame Tom. An anomaly in the subterrain has been caused by too much cellar excavation, which also led to the letters on the road signs around Bishop's Stortford getting jumbled up.
Apostrophe judges: Does Bishop's Stortford have an apostrophe? If so, where?

It depends how many Bishops are involved. Please clarify the requirement or turn off and reboot.

[DRT]

For those not watching, there was a slightly smaller quake in Hampshire 24 hours earlier. If I am not mistaken, Hampshire is almost in "the south", which means this global threat is on the doorstep of the most ardent NIMBYs.

[PhilW]

Bishop's Strotford...?!

Apostrophe judges: Does Bishop's Stortford have an apostrophe? If so, where?

It depends how many Bishops are involved. Please clarify the requirement or turn off and reboot.

William the Norman, then Bishop of London, bought the Stortford estate in 1060; hence Bishop's Stortford.