Rutland Earthquakes

In the last few days we have had two largish, by UK standards, earthquakes in the Oakham area, which have shock peoples houses and rattled peoples never to some extent.

The first of the two earthquakes measured 3.2 occurred on Thursday morning at 6:07 am and woke everyone up in the house, while the second was stronger and measured 3.5 and occurred today at 6:50 am. It was the first one that was more shocking than the second despite the fact it was slightly smaller. Maybe that was due to the fact that it woke us all up with the shacking of the house while the other was sightly later in the morning and was more like thunder with what appeared to be less shaking.

Both earthquakes were in the Ashwell area, rather than Oakham as reported in the press who managed to find some what they called terrified locals to give them interviews for the news paper. All the people I talked to were more matter of fact about it all and just curious to know and understand why they had occurred and if we were going to have a third even bigger quake. Like usual the National newspapers blew the whole thing up and sensationalised the whole thing, and that included the quality press too.

UPDATE 28th April 2014 - The third Earthquake arrived today at 10:05pm centered again in the Ashwell area. Much smaller than the other two at 1.7, didn't really feel anything, it was more sort and large clap of thunder.

UPDATE 25th July 2014 - Hopefully the final earthquake for a while which measure 1.5 occurred at 10:36am, this time located between Langham and Cold Overton. This time it was just more of a rumble rather than anything really noticeable.