Quake

was it a drift geology map or solid geology? (drift will only show the surface rocks which could be deposited by glaciers, rivers etc. and so wouldnt show it)

I haven't had a geography teacher for some time now, so I watched the brain-numbing animation on the 10 O'Clock news. Doh! Serves me right for watching ITV news...

asked my geog teacher on where other plate margins are in the UK. Apparently theres one which goes up the menai strits, along the top of wales (at sea) then across England and goes right under where the epicentre. She said the slip would only have been about 0.5mm MAX!!!!!!. apparently its because the different plates are pushing the UK in different ways and twisting it slightly.

Aparantly also which floor of the building you are on, the higher up the more likely you are to feel something, also materials your house are made of.. A tutor in my house who is a geography teacher gave us a longwinded explanation of what effects how bad it is for different people over dinner yet forgot to mention why it happens

i was awake at the time watching a film. didnt feel a thing. Its largely to do with the type of soil/ rock the houses are built upon. unconsolidated rock is much less stable than than solid bedrock and so the efects of the quake are greater.

as for the quake reason, it can be due to almost anything. Britain does have some old (inactive) plate margins - menai straits covers one such.

reason why i know this - just dne earthquakes and volcanoes in A'Level geography