A 4.3 magnitude earthquake was felt in Kent. Not very large, but there was some damage and one woman suffered a head injury. Any Dopers in Kent?
Turning on the radio this morning the first thing I heard was a traffic report. Still being half-asleep I wasn’t sure I had heard correctly when the announcer said something like “due to the earthquake, the A-blah blah is closed for inspection”. A serious WTF moment ensued - that’s not the sort of thing we hear a lot.
I thought you meant Kent, Washington and I was about to call my kids. Good thing I read the link or I would have gotten them out of bed.
Aren’t earthquakes kinda rare in England?
:smack: I totally forgot about Kent, WA. I never get down that way.
They felt it all the way to London; England, not Ontario.
USGS lists it as a 4.7; shallow too, only 10km.
Kentish Doper reporting in here. Dover struggled a bit this morning and tried to make a bid for freedom but we’ve got those pesky white cliffs under control now. Move along folks, nothin’ to see.
Actually I’m about 50 miles away from where this happened, and didn’t feel a thing. I’m a bit disappointed really as it’s true we don’t get many exciting things like this around here. We did have a hurricane in 1987 though. I missed that too.
I want to reassure Dopers that I am OK. Relief supplies are getting through, and we have clean water. Most of the lava has solidified now.
Oh great, I’m right in between where this major disaster happened and where Usram is presumably cringing in a makeshift shelter waiting for the Red Cross to show up, and the excitement’s bypassed me completely.
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[Sulks]
At least you got an earthquake. There’s a volcano just 50 miles away from me, and it doesn’t even erupt.
Hey, I just had a look at that map and boy, Dover really must have had a bad day, given that it’s migrated from the easternmost corner of Kent to somewhere in, oooooo, is that Norfolk?
Tricky blighter, plate tectonics. Still, suddenly those Dover - Boulogne prices look like great value.
Yeah, same here. Bloody thing’s been extinct for millions of years, and where’s the fun in that?
If it’s not very big, you could use it as a foot stool.
Some buggers only gone and built a castle on it. The nerve!
Be patient, dear, be patient.
I’m in the other Kent. Everyone in the house thinks I nuts now, hollering about an earthquake. My windows have been rattling today though, it’s from the dragsters at the nearby dragstrip, not from an earthquake.
It rains a lot here. :eek:
And sometimes our trains are delayed by ‘leaves on the line’. 
After 50 years, the worst English weather I can recall was this storm:
‘Rescue workers faced an unprecedented number of call-outs as winds hit 94 mph (151 km/h) in the capital and over 110 mph (177 km/h) in the Channel Islands.’
Earthquakes, hurricanes, forest fires + tornadoes are incredibly rare here.
You have a volcano? We don’t even have that. I live just south of the Canadian Shield, one of the stablest landmasses on the planet.
At least we get tornadoes.
Not a good time to be going thru the Chunnel, I guess.
Ironic, considering your location could be interpreted as “Northern Washington [state].” 