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Originally posted by Jimbowsk
Wahhhhh my home town! I dont care though, Blackpool's a cesspit and needs wiping out
Blackpool actually suffered a 2.2 earthquake today - hardly big news, i've made more of a rumble fallin down the stairs
Originally posted by Dock9
Next: for how LONG have they been conducting drills in the UK ?
Emergency crews from across Europe and the Middle East are taking part in a major exercise simulating an earthquake hitting a fictional British town
Originally posted by Dock9
Last UK earthquake to take lives was in the 1500s -- yet they're holding elaborate drills as shown above
and claiming it's to train fire and rescue teams as were deployed to Japan and Christchurch ?
POLICE have been sent on a training course to prepare for a massive earthquake, it emerged last night.
The three-day exercise, involving hundreds of staff from four forces, cost almost £1million.
Yet over the past 1,036 years since records began in 974 only 11 people are known to have been killed by earthquakes in Britain. And the last one of any size was nearly 80 years ago.
Officers from Hampshire, Hertfordshire and Merseyside took part in the bizarre exercise this week to plan for a tremor measuring 8 on the Richter scale. Mock disaster scenes included burning cars and collapsed buildings and more than 600 actors and amputees were employed to pose as injured victims.
The biggest quake ever to hit the UK – at Dogger Bank in 1931 – measured just 6.1 and caused only one fatality, a woman in Hull who had a heart attack.
Originally posted by jameshawkings
This is crazy, as I'm writing this post now, I was just looking for a link to give you and I've just discovered that there was an Earthquake in Blackpool today Small earthquake hits Blackpool The epicentre was in the sea, practising for a Tsunami?
Yet over the past 1,036 years since records began in 974 only 11 people are known to have been killed by earthquakes in Britain