Elisebathe: Is it bad that I was expecting to read an article about a quake in a country?
tinyE: Does the U.K. have quakes? There must be a fault around there somewhere. If I had them in Missouri you have to have them.
I do not think that there is a country out there without its earthquakes.
A magnitude 4 earthquake happens in Britain roughly every two years. We experience a magnitude 5 roughly every 10–20 years. Research suggests that the largest possible earthquake in the UK is around 6.5.
Most earthquakes occur on the western side of the British mainland.
Earthquakes are almost completely absent from eastern Scotland and north east England. Similarly, Ireland is almost completely free of earthquakes.