[Archived] Earth Tremors

[RibbleValleyRover]

I live in Clitheroe, and at around 1am the house shook violently and it felt like an Earth Tremor.

Anyone else experienced it?

*Reports on the news just now about places in Leicestershire, Norfolk and other places experiencing something similar.*

[Exiled_Rover]

I thought I was imagining things! Yeah, I live in Clayton Green and was woken by the house shaking.

[fee]

felt it too in blackburn at 12.56am, the house wobbled!

reports on sky news as we speak. had calls from friends in london and hull who felt it too

[cn174]

It was here: Earthquake

Was a magnitude 4.7 - quite high for England.

[grizfoot]

I felt some small movement to. Thought it was just me being silly or a big gust of wind, turns out it must have been this earth tremor.

[cletus]

Me too!

Never felt an earth tremor before. Only lasted a few seconds but un-nerving (sp?) all the same. BBC news says it was felt from Northumberland to as far down as Brighton.

[grizfoot]

I wondered why my pet Budgie was going crazy. Animals pick up on these things. I feel like I've just missed the opportunity to jump under a table.

[RibbleValleyRover]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recent.../us2008nyae.php

[rovers si]

I felt it in Manchester. The entire house shook. I cant sleep now - scared of the aftershocks. I actually went straight to the window to look for the monster from cloverfield, or aliens.

[dillo_dillo]

hope you enjoyed SMALL Earthquake :-)

[Flopsy]

bloody Japs, always have to go one better

It woke me up in Brum, thought I was having a dream or something, and went back to sleep.

I'd just check your water pipes and stuff when you get home just to check nothing's come loose

[Ricky]

Definitely felt the earth move in Hereford last night

[Flopsy]

good curry was it?

[LeftWinger]

We got woken up when it happened - wondered what the hell was going on. The bedroom was shaking and the wardrobes were rattling loads.

I was quite relieved when I woke up again this morning to realise it wasn't just my house

[fee]

URGENT - GLASGOW EARTHQUAKE APPEAL

AT 00.54 ON WED 27th Feb 2008 A MAJOR EARTHQUAKE HIT MEASURING 8.8 ON

THE RICHTER SCALE EPICENTERED ON GLASGOW.

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made.

Untold disruption and distress was caused. Many were woken well before

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The cone fell off the head of the statue of the Duke of Wellington outside

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One resident, Mary-Alice McGregor, a 17 year old mother-of-three said: "It

was such a shock, little Chelsea came running into my bedroom crying. My

youngest two, Tyler-Morgan and Shauni slept through it. I was still shaking

when I was watching Trisha the next morning."

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[AlanK]

Felt it down here in Oxfordshire

I was half asleep/ half awake.

I thought it was ME shaking.

Told myself to roll over and it might stop.

Found out what it was all about this morning.

It wasn`t me, it was bleedin blighty!

Nothing compared to the 6.5 I experienced in the Dominican Republic.

It doesn`t sound much more than a 5.2 but the richter scale is non linear and a 6.5 can throw you off the bed no problem.

[grizfoot]

Map showing were the 'quake was felt: http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/shake/ous/STOR...im_display.html

[modes98]

I was awake at the time. Watching the real hustle on bbc3. Thought it was strong wind at first but then when the house shook a bit it was just like the last one. Strange how they are always at night.

I went on that monitoring website about 15-20mins after it had happened but there was nothing about it on there so just went to sleep.

[Tango]

I was watching the conclusion (i.e. the scary part) of Red Dragon just as the earthquake hit my house, scared me half to death!

[LeftWinger]

Someone emailed in to football365 asking if anyone else had heard Frank Lampard fall out of bed at 1am last night.

[Anti Euro Smiths Fan]

Someone emailed in to football365 asking if anyone else had heard Frank Lampard fall out of bed at 1am last night.

Nice one....

I didn't feel a thing last night, I must have been in a deep sleep when it happened at about 1.00am.

There are apparently about 200 minor quake tremors in Britain every year, but only about 10 per cent are strong enough to be felt.

A magnitude '5' earthquake happens on average once every ten years in Britain. Last night was magnitude 5.3 on the Richter scale and it was the biggest in Britain since a 5.4 quake in Wales in 1984.

[Billy Castell]

It made my parent's pans shake as I was cooking a Tesco Naan bread after going to the pub.

[Flopsy]

Something I didnt know was that there are thousands of fault lines all through Europe, and in recent geological history (Ie the last few thousand years) there have been a good deal of quite big ones.

The beeb's website had an article on why this one might have occurred, something to do with some very hard rock formation running up the midlands and the fact the south is still rebounding after the last ice age.

[Alan75]

Something I didnt know was that there are thousands of fault lines all through Europe, and in recent geological history (Ie the last few thousand years) there have been a good deal of quite big ones.

The beeb's website had an article on why this one might have occurred, something to do with some very hard rock formation running up the midlands and the fact the south is still rebounding after the last ice age.

Gollocks......its the north south divide we are digging a tunnel, just wait for the final blast when we blow away the top crust and flood the midlands to break away from them southern softies.

[LeftWinger]

I see there is still no sign of Pakistan and Sri Lanka setting up an earth quake appeal to help us....

Next time they have one, I say f&^k em!