5.2 quake makes Brits think it's the Apocalypse
OK, so they don't have temblors very often. And they have a bunch of stuff made of brick. And "retrofit" likely isn't the first thing on their minds. But there was no serious damage reported and one injury from the U.K. quake that was reportedly felt for 300 miles.
But The Sun tabloid is all over the hot story:
"Stunned Mark Young said he looked out of his window and saw an EIGHT FOOT crack in his neighbour’s garden at LEICESTER.He said: 'There was a big crack through the ground and there was smoke and flames coming out. It was spitting things out.
'It is eight foot long and two foot wide.'
John Burton feared his house, in WAKEFIELD, West Yorkshire, was going to fall down as he watched television.
He said: 'It shook the whole house.'
Metal worker Simon Smith, 38, from CHATTERIS, Cambs, said: 'It felt like a juggernaut was going down my road.
'I turned to my wife Heather and shouted, "S***, it’s an earthquake."'"
Wimps.
And yes, that's the worst damage picture to be found.
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