You may have seen the news about the 4.4-magnitude earthquake that hit southwest England yesterday. Tremors were felt as far as Cornwall. The epicenter was in Swansea, Cardiff’s biggest rugby rival. Even though Cardiff is closer to Swansea than Cornwall is, no one I’ve spoken to in Cardiff felt a thing.
As a Portlander probably destined to die in The Big One, I have trouble taking the excitement seriously. Social media is on fire about the “massive” British earthquake. Luckily, no one was hurt and property damage was minimal. People are just, pardon the horrible pun, shaken up. An earthquake in which the casualties are not measured in a percentage of the population is not, by this paranoid Portlander’s definition, ‘massive.’