Earthquake!

[Louise Rebecca]

Did anybody else feel it?

I was so scared, I'm still shaking. First time I've ever experienced one.

[Louise Rebecca]

Woah, it's all over the news already. That was quick.

Edit: 4.7 on the richter scale

[mazikeen]

Yeah, I felt it too. I've been in quite a few earthquakes (I'm from Greece), but didn't really expect one in England! 4.7, that's impressive.

[Scythe]

What areas did it reach? I don't know if the UK being so small makes that a stupid question or not; we don't get earthquakes here.

[Fona]

I felt it, I panicked at first but then assumed that I'd dreamed it because I was dosing off at the time. People were running around shouting so I assumed it was just drunk people making me dream up earthquakes.

[Fona]

It was 5.3 according the the BBC.

ETA- 4.7 in Manchester, now I know why you were saying that :p

[isowish]

I slept through it. :sleep: but I'm all the way up in Newc. According to local news it was about 1.3 in this area though.

[Bof]

According to the Beeb (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2275158.stm):
'Large parts of England and Wales have been hit by an earthquake measuring 4.8 on the Richter scale.
Buildings shook for up to 30 seconds in parts of the West Midlands, Wales, North Yorkshire, London, and Wiltshire.
The tremor began at 0053 BST and its epicentre was in Dudley in the West Midlands'.

Dudley was totally destroyed and the damage estimated to be around 25 pounds. :)

[kat]

I think this must have been at the time I was going to sleep. Didn't feel it but had some weird dreams. I always seem to miss these "earhtquakes" we get in the UK.

[piratemoon]

Lol, the Dudley one was a couple of years ago. :) Same year as the Birmingham Hurricane. Made me think that somebody wanted the West Midlands off the map!

Anyhow, I felt it last night! I thought the oak tree in the back had fallen on the house! My bookshelf jumped right out from the wall (potentially fatal, considering the amounts of books on there!) and shook. I got out of bed and wondered round confusedly. Thought at one point that perhaps a plane had missed Birmingham International! Then went to sleep having decided that it was a really big bird flying into my window. Never even considered an earthquake!

[Punk_in_Drublic]

I slept through it!

[Indian Summer]

Nah, didn't notice anything down here. Btw, there was another earthquake just a few days ago on Svalbard that measured 6.2. Some speculated that it had somehow been triggered by the Moon since it happened just at the start of the Lunar eclipse.

[Duke Nukem]

I managed to sleep right through it too. Dunno if it is coincidence but I seem to recall the last quake, the center of which was just a few miles away in Dudley, was also at 1am in the morning - I definitely felt that one ! And sorry 'piratemoon', but it was a few years before the hurricanes.

From what I remember of the Dudley one, it wasn't so much the initial quake that was un-nerving as much as the power cut that followed a few seconds later.

TTFN,
Jon

[asp3]

I'm glad to see the reports don't say there were any injuries and that there wasn't any really reportable damage. Being in California I've felt my share of earthquakes including being about 15 miles (as the crow flies) from the epicenter of the Loma Prieta earthquake in '89. I think the small ones are kind of fun.

[Amy SF]

I slept through it!

If anybody think that's not possible, my sister swears that her daughter slept completely through the 1994 Northridge, California earthquake, and that was measured variously at 6.6, 6.8 and 6.7, so it was 200 times stronger than this earthquake (at 4.8). And my niece was just 6 years old at the time.

[llamapower]

We felt it in Sheffield although wasn't very long, only a few seconds, but I've heard that some people nearby felt it for longer which seems weird - there were some injuries too from fallen chimney stacks and things in other parts of Yorkshire.

[Shantih]

I was just going to bed when it happened, and came to the logical conclusion that the house was haunted :lol:! The floor moved a bit and all the doors started rattling really loudly ala The Amityville Horror and my over active imagination made it's own assumptions :up: But let's face it - earthquake in England or ghosts? Neither are hugely likely.

[yblad]

its officially a 5.2.
my bed moved an inch across the room and thiongs fell off my shelves. it took me about 10 mins to realise that i didnt halucinate it hehe.

[*Star*Lass*]

I didn't feel it, i was asleep (surprised it didn't wake me up!). My boyfriend was up and he felt the house shake, and his computer went off.


I've been in quite a few earthquakes (I'm from Greece)

I felt one when i went to Kefalonia, about 5 years ago. The epicentre was at an island we had just been to, the day before. I think all the roads were torn up. Glad we weren't there at that point! I loved it though.... bit of excitement!

[hoodedclawjen]

Dudley was totally destroyed and the damage estimated to be around 25 pounds.

:lol: they always overestimate those insurance claims.

[DIYlover]

hehe it was only a tremor i didnt even wake up!!

[IamJen]

Yeah, my response was sort of "darn, we missed it". I'd only just gone to sleep maybe 1/2 hour before then, but we felt nada. 5.2 is the figure being thrown around for Oxfordshire, and apparently there were some calls to the fire brigade, but um yeah..we snoozed away. :p

[Serenstar]

I felt it!

I was watching Stardust on my laptop at the time.
It hit at the point where Yvaine shines and kills Lamia. Talk about timing!