Britains biggest earthquake!

Britain isnt known for its earthquakes, far from it, as land of the bland where we dont really get hurricans, tornadoes, summer, winter, torrential rain, or anything else.. Other things we dont have are active volcanoes and earthquakes - well we have minor quakes but to be honest as far as I have read 99% of them go unnoticed because they are either that small or less violent than a small truck driving past and people just dismiss it.

However, today.. 4.7 in the richter scale (spelling maybe wrong there) todays quake details

4.7 is the biggest one in england for a good while!

Part of the reason we dont have volcanoes and earthquakes of course is because we arent on any of the plate lines aroudn the globe, and while thats not the only cause of earthquakes, it is the major cause. Hence looking at things like Earthquake monitor you can see the older quakes in purple and see the follow the earth plate lines - yes a few are splatter off this but the majority are on plate lines.

I certainly didnt feel anything firstly, I was asleep, secondly, I think we are too far away from it to even have felt it even if we knew it was happening.