Earthquake in England

Anyone just feel it?

I did!

Edited title as seems to be a nationwide thing.

You just beat me to it Liam!

Thought the Chimney had collapsed or summat!

A bag fell off the table and that was the extent of the damage in my flat.

No damage here at all,apart from my nerves!

Wind has died down as well!

fcukin ell all over the country? just checked outside cant see any damage as yet .phew

BBC News... :-o

Must have missed Shropshire...

4.7 on the Richter Scale.

Epicentre in Hull. No great damage then.

Now, Breaking News on BBC News 24 - quick off the mark, there!

Most likely caused by sea-floor spreading at the mid-Atlantic ridge. Divergent plate boundries are a source of alot of earthquakes (i.e. Japan). It is seperating at uneven rates (2.3 cm per year at London's latitude; 1.8 cm per year at Scotland's latitude) and directions (E/W at London's latitude; SE/NW at Scotland's lattitude), which can cause things to buckle over time, and releasing at one point---causing the earthquake.

These things usually come at pretty even time intervals... at least in Earth timeline....

EdelBrock wrote: Most likely caused by sea-floor spreading at the mid-Atlantic ridge. Divergent plate boundries are a source of alot of earthquakes (i.e. Japan). It is seperating at uneven rates (2.3 cm per year at London's latitude; 1.8 cm per year at Scotland's latitude) and directions (E/W at London's latitude; SE/NW at Scotland's lattitude), which can cause things to buckle over time, and releasing at one point---causing the earthquake.

These things usually come at pretty even time intervals... at least in Earth timeline....

I had a different theory in the other thread...

it was barney dropping his autocue on hookys foot.

Every bugger and his dog was on the phone to us within two minutes of it happening. All we could do was wait for auntie bbc to post something so we'd something to tell them. Didn't feel it here at all. Edit: posted from my phone for first time. I'm now officially chrissie r

I felt it, it woke me but as I live near East Mids airport i thought it was a plane taking off :)

Didn't notice it, and I was playing poker at the time.

i thought something had driven into the side of the house. terrifying.

i was on the phone to my friend in york and he felt it too. he was online so i suggested he check news sites for details - gave him a minute or two, then asked how he was getting on. "hang on", he said, "i'm just updating my status..."

i wasnt that shocked that an earthwake was shaking the house, because i was already shaking from accrington stanley actually winning a home game a few hours earlier

banshee wrote: i wasnt that shocked that an earthwake was shaking the house, because i was already shaking from accrington stanley actually winning a home game a few hours earlier

Accrington Stanley? Who are they?

Whole house shook! Shit it! In bed"Fuck,whose there" moment...Brother downstairs said everything shook.Thought it was our ghosts.

exacclly

Marvin wrote:

banshee wrote: i wasnt that shocked that an earthwake was shaking the house, because i was already shaking from accrington stanley actually winning a home game a few hours earlier

Accrington Stanley? Who are they?

Exactly !!

bloodynora wrote: i thought something had driven into the side of the house. terrifying.

i was on the phone to my friend in york and he felt it too. he was online so i suggested he check news sites for details - gave him a minute or two, then asked how he was getting on. "hang on", he said, "i'm just updating my status..."

Bex mate is: "about to die horribly"

Armageddon, blog stylee.

Boatraceface wrote: Whole house shook! Shit it! In bed"Fuck,whose there" moment...Brother downstairs said everything shook.Thought it was our ghosts.

Ah if you're in Redcar, the the earthquake was most likely felt in Stockton, which will explain why bottle on my floor and the hoover fell over.

I however slept through the whole thing. Gutted!

That's the last time I drink 2 bottles of Rush on a Tuesday night.

Uncle Liam wrote: 4.7 on the Richter Scale.

Epicentre in Hull. No great damage then.

Council officials have announced that the earthquake has caused thousands of pounds worth of improvements.

I had been ill for several days and have taken a lot of TABLETS.Been watching a Channel Five story on BERMUDA TRIANGLE then a couple of SHAMELESS episodes.Sat up in bed and thought i had a GHOST in my bloody bed drawers.Put BIG light on and then calmed down.No idea till it was mentioned on news a few minutes ago.What A WIMP! I WILL NOW BE KNOWN AS Rocky Mick

I too watched both episodes of Shameless then fell into a deep sleep.

I always miss the earthquakes. I think you lot are making it up

Scared us to death! The noise it made was the worst bit. Went outside to check the roof and chimney and everyone else was out too. Got several compliments on my Guinness dressing gown

It woke the boy up but he simply said "ba ba ba ba wa wa wa wa wa" and then went back to sleep

It felt much worse than the one in 2002

Major Tarantino wrote: Scared us to death! The noise it made was the worst bit. Went outside to check the roof and chimney and everyone else was out too. Got several compliments on my Guinness dressing gown

It woke the boy up but he simply said "ba ba ba ba wa wa wa wa wa" and then went back to sleep

It felt much worse than the one in 2002

Quaking in his bootees

ROCKET MICK wrote: I had been ill for several days and have taken a lot of TABLETS.Been watching a Channel Five story on BERMUDA TRIANGLE then a couple of SHAMELESS episodes.Sat up in bed and thought i had a GHOST in my bloody bed drawers.Put BIG light on and then calmed down.No idea till it was mentioned on news a few minutes ago.What A WIMP! I WILL NOW BE KNOWN AS Rocky Mick

more like shaky stef yer big puff!

Barney said it ROCKed THE SHACK:)

Good lordie people, it was only a 4.7 earthquake.... you're all crying about it like it was a 7.0 or higher....

change yer knickers and get on with it

EdelBrock wrote: Good lordie people, it was only a 4.7 earthquake.... you're all crying about it like it was a 7.0 or higher....

change yer knickers and get on with it

5.3 ACTUALLY. tsk.

I think what happened was that the god of England detonated a bomb under the ground to express his sympathy with a different political course.

Didn't the earth move, Marvin?

Didnt notice anything here in Bristol. Must have been just outside the radius maybe?

Rev Big wrote: Didn't the earth move, Marvin?

i was in the canteen at work at the time,and the factory shooked quite bad. i thought WTF..

EdelBrock wrote: Good lordie people, it was only a 4.7 earthquake.... you're all crying about it like it was a 7.0 or higher....

change yer knickers and get on with it

were you in Oregon when they had the 5.6 quake in 93? woke me up at 5:30 in the morning, I thought the g/f had loaded the washing machine unevenly ( I was living in Salem at the time, fairly close to the epicenter)

from the BBC:

Rescue worker Wayne Simpson found Sharon Smith, 17, a mother of four, under some rubble crying. He asked "where you bleeding from?" She replied "Essex, but wots that got to do wiv anyfing?

BALDRICK wrote: i was in the canteen at work at the time,and the factory shooked quite bad. i thought WTF..

Strange, cos 40 odd miles down the road, I didn't feel a thing...

Snorri xxx

It's all Labour spin - there's going to be some bad news buried today, so they came up with the earthquake story to cover it up!

Beyond Good And Evil wrote:

EdelBrock wrote: Good lordie people, it was only a 4.7 earthquake.... you're all crying about it like it was a 7.0 or higher....

change yer knickers and get on with it

were you in Oregon when they had the 5.6 quake in 93? woke me up at 5:30 in the morning, I thought the g/f had loaded the washing machine unevenly ( I was living in Salem at the time, fairly close to the epicenter)

No, only lived in Oregon from 2001-2003....

...but I've lived most of my life in So Cal, so earthquakes are a way of life down here....