It's been a really busy week for me-including earning a crust from the recent seismic activity in the earth's crust.
Woken at 1 a.m. by the radiators rattling in my house I realised it was another earthquake. Not as scary as the one in 2003 though, where the epicentre was nearer and everything shook for ten seconds accompanied by a rushing sound.

So no surprise that I received a phone call from The Daily Telegraph to get out to Market Rasen and Gainsborough in Lincolnshire to cover the damage to homes near the epicentre. It has to be said that this was not as spectacular as might have been imagined!
Compared with the scenes of devastation from other areas in the world hit by quakes, this was very minor league stuff.
Japan,for instance, averages four earthquakes per day, with the 1995 Kobe quake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale and killing 6,430 people.

The church in Market Rasen had a stone cross come crashing down from the aisle roof. A few damaged chimneys in Gainsborough, but not a lot else to see or photograph. The best news photos came from Barnsley, where a man was hospitalised after a chimney collapsed and plunged through the roof of his bedroom.