The Rutland Earthquake

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Bang under Cottesmore Airfield, apparently, where the Vulcans used to fly from.

Did anyone feel the ground move? Half an hour ago, this was.
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Anything special going on around there lately? The story I just looked at said they had earthquakes two days in a row last April also.
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I don't know if either of those areas are subject to fracking or not.
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The quake was directly below where the UK's nuclear deterrent used to be stored in the 60s, after we abandoned Blue Streak and before we deployed the Polaris subs. Well, I expect there were a few there for years after that but they're surely gone by now. Maybe one of the old tunnels collapsed.
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The BBC has revealed the true cause of the Rutland Earthquake...

"British Geological Survey seismologist Paul Denton lives in Oakham himself"

Stands to reason then. Any town where a British Geological Survey seismologist lives is bound to attract them sometime or other.

BBC News - Oakham earthquake recorded at 3.8 in magnitude

I'd swear the first report said Cottesmore though.
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