WingColors Thread: England gets an earthquake

England gets an earthquake

Josue — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 01:51:48

we have them occasionally in costa rica, you get used to them.

England gets an earthquake

Johnny — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:29:39

I live in South Wales close to Cardiff and Swansea and it was felt down here. I was asleep so didn't notice it, but I felt the last tremor a few years back when the epicentre was in Dudley in the Midlands. I heard a loud bang and then a small rumble causing the window panes to vibrate a little. It felt like a freight train passing by.

England gets an earthquake

realepicurean — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 03:27:31

I'm based in the North Lincs - the epicentre, so it were. My friends and family all have exciting stories to tell, but me? Bugger all. Slept right through.

I'm now a miserable git accusing everyone else of lying. For every 1 person who tells the truth another 9 will lie about it!

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karmatosed — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:14:05

House is fine it seems - well if you define fine as in old wreck still ;) Kind of even more glad we're moving as highlights it's about as stable as the little pig's one lol.

Dogs did freak out and can't really blame them as their owners were doing a big wtf moment too.

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Ollie — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:44:36

By the way, I must add I'm quite proud of myself for not cracking the obvious 'the earth moved but was no quake' joke. :P

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Cas — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:58:11

I always said that I could sleep through an earthquake and now I know that's true! (Joking aside, I live on the south coast, same as OIlie, so it's hardly surprising I didn't feel anything!).

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Ollie — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:29:11

From what we know on the mainland, things often start in Hull.

lol@Nils.

I didn't feel anything but then I'm down on the south coast. Hope the house is still in one piece Tam. I suspect your dogs must have been freaked out.

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karmatosed — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:59:23

News is now saying it was 5.3 according to the bbc and seems a lot of england felt it ... if they weren't sleeping :)

England gets an earthquake

seopher — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:20:20

I felt nothing. I never feel that sort of thing because I'm always in a deep, deep sleep.

I wish I'd experienced it!

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Nils — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:47:13

From what we know on the mainland, things often start in Hull. That's for sure.

I thought 4.7 would be considerable and that maybe we'd have noticed across the Channel, but looking at this BBC map, I can see that would've been hard.

We never get any of the cool quakes here in Europe. We apparently had one here (Belgium) years ago, but I never noticed.

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publicenergy — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:45:01

I'm in the East Midlands too. It was strange and a bit worrying really. The BBC are saying it's the worst one for 25 years. I was in bed and the bed started vibrating, I could see my clock moving around and all of the birds outside start making noises and flying around.

You realise how powerless you are to do anything. If that was around 5 on the scale, you can only imagine what it's like to be in something more powerful.

England gets an earthquake

Clarkey — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:48:36

Yes we felt it here in the East Midlands. Woke up with the house shaking and thought a few pictures might come of the wall. Makes you realise how bad it must be for people who experience the big one's.

It'll give the news something to talk about today.

England gets an earthquake

karmatosed — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 07:00:51

Ok it's not a big thing for others but I just felt my first earthquake at 1am ish tonight. Apparently early reports say it was 4.7 and started in Hull. That's a fair bit away from me and our entire house shook. Being an old house it felt for a short while like it would probably be falling over. All is well though bar a car alarm not being turned off outside - not quite sure how you sleep through that lol. Anyways any other Brits feel it?