Map reveals UK’s worst earthquakes in past 640 years including 6.1 magnitude tremor

A MAP has revealed the UK’s worst earthquakes in the past 640 years including a 6.1 magnitude tremor.

While the UK has escaped the so called megathrust earthquakes that result in the loss of life, tremors do happen.

ReutersIn February 2008 homes in the Barnsley area were damaged by a quake[/caption] PA:Press AssociationOne of the scenes of destruction in the Barnsley area of Yorkshire[/caption] Commissariat à l'Energie AtomiqueThe epicentre of the 1931 quake in Dogger Bank[/caption]...