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i am glad i live away from anything like that uk

I never heard of earthquakes near where I live, but lately (the last 1-2 year/s) there's been earthquakes that have been felt here by a couple of people. It's uncommon, but not impossible, there's the plate in the Argentina-Chile division.

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Originally posted by Tasha
Hope things are ok.

We did have an earthquake once, in Shropshire, a few years ago.

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Don't forget the one in Birmingham!

We have major ones in Britain. Some can reach up to 0.0001 on the richter scale!!!!!!

i've only been in 1 earthquake, and it was only strong enough to shake the windows(everything shakes our winows), i hope i'm never in a big one

Todayz newspaper states no casualties n no one got hurt Phew ....

i want to go to like a place in middle of nowhere and feel how earthquake feels like and then go back home where it safe

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Originally posted by Tasha
Hope things are ok.

We did have an earthquake once, in Shropshire, a few years ago.

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i remeber hearing that, there was one in manchester but i was on holiday so didnt feel it, my sister lived in japan for a while and there were earthquakes all the time, its scary, whenever we heard about a mojor one we rang her to check she was ok

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Originally posted by John Anderton
U were talking about major plates. This is where i live. Still i got affected by it
the dot is where Bombay (Now called Mumbai) is

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Living near 2 tectonic plates simply means you have a much much bigger chance of stronger earthquakes, it doesn't mean that when you don't live near 2 plates that there never will be an earthquake.

And within the big earth plates there are also little movements of smaller parts of the plate...

Tectonic plate movement isn't the only cause of earthquakes. It is the biggest cause though.

Even here in Belgium we have a very small earthquake once every few decades.

earthquakes can also mobe through the earth, like a big eathquake in china could be felt in canada

i didnt feel a thing in delhi, tho we did feel ALOT when there was the quake in gujarat