British Police Given Earthquake Training for ‘Extremely Unlikely Crisis’
September 10th, 2010

Via: Telegraph:

Hundreds of police officers undertook a three-day course on how to deal with powerful earthquakes even though Britain has never experienced any such event.

Britain endures its fair share of elemental hardships: floods, storms, and even the occasional tornado. It is not, however, known for its high risk of catastrophic earthquakes.

But that did not stop police officers undertaking a three-day course training them to deal with a devastating tremor.

Officers from four British forces participated in the £826,000 exercise that simulated the consequences from a tremor measuring eight on the Richter scale hitting the country – something that has never happened and probably never will.

The teams were called in to work with European and Middle Eastern officials for the “extremely unlikely” crisis.

Hundreds of actors were also employed to recreate the mock disaster scenes across the country.

Critics suggested the three day exercise, one of the largest ever undertaken, was a waste of valuable resources as it would almost never occur in Britain.

Senior officials, however, felt it “necessary” to be prepared for such an “unthinkable” event despite just 11 people dying from earthquakes in Britain over the past 1000 years.

This week’s EU-funded project, code-named Exercise Orion, simulated emergency services rescuing people caught up in the disaster. In one “real life event”, up to 600 casualties were rescued from the town of “Widley”, Hants.

That disaster, recreated near Portsmouth, caused motorways and apartment blocks to collapse, oil storage plants to be damaged and cars to start burning.

Under the scenario, British emergency services were soon overwhelmed and the Cabinet Office issued an appeal for European Union assistance.

Teams from Denmark, Germany, Italy, Norway, Spain and Sweden then joined urban search-and-rescue teams from the United Arab Emirates.

Earthquakes in the UK are very rare, and the last one was
recorded in Kent, 4.3 on 4/28/2007.
With HARP weapons, anything can happen.

Or asteroid/solar events...

But perhaps they don't foresee an earthquake happening in the near future, but rather widespread destruction. Training for an earthquake is the way to train responders without having to give an explanation.

Either way, what do they know that we don't?

...but they have 826K taxpayer Pounds Sterling to spend on drills, while we are lucky to have a few cans of beans in the cupboard.

...but they have 826K taxpayer Pounds Sterling to spend on drills, while we are lucky to have a few cans of beans in the cupboard.

Yes, but we have a rosary to go with those Van Camp's, which means the bad guys are seriously overmatched.

 

It's like I've been saying all along, HARP may have had something to do with the extremely over-active 2005 Atlantic Hurricane season. Only God knows what else these nutcases have been using it for.