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Anyone in the UK feel that earth tremor a few minutes ago?

FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
edited February 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
It provided a bit of entertainment for a few seconds.
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  • brain of cbrain of c Posts: 5,213
    you felt the earth move under your feet?
    d'oh!!!!!!

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  • ||Release_Me||||Release_Me|| Posts: 1,871
    yep, we felt it. My bed moved!
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  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    It sounded like a giant sky elephant buggering a plane going through the sound barrier, and my chair shook.
  • JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
    Did you get lucky fins? ;):D
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  • nfanelnfanel Posts: 2,558
    brain of c wrote:
    you felt the earth move under your feet?
    and felt the sky tumblin' down, tumblin'down
  • Drop The Leash 10Drop The Leash 10 Posts: 7,011
    lucky. i remember one time in the states the fans at a college football game caused an earth trmeror because they were so loud.
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  • brain of cbrain of c Posts: 5,213
    nfanel wrote:
    and felt the sky tumblin' down, tumblin'down
    i hate it when that happens.
    d'oh!!!!!!

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  • failedpersephonefailedpersephone Posts: 3,424
    aren't tremors rad??

    I love them...they are so cool
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  • shell bellshell bell Posts: 337
    I just read about the little earth movement that you guys had. I've been in a 6.8,that's earth moving....................................
    when you get confused just listen to the music play........

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  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    shell bell wrote:
    I just read about the little earth movement that you guys had. I've been in a 6.8,that's earth moving....................................

    thats nothing... i have 69's all the time... ;)


    i never felt it, but then it was at 1am or something and i was dreaming of marscarpone cheese about that time..
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • MattCameronKicksButtMattCameronKicksButt Posts: 4,317
    No. :eek: I really should watch the news today...

    This reminds me of the time that I forgot we were having an eclipse and couldn't understand why it was so dark. :rolleyes:
  • prismprism Posts: 2,440
    cool, how big is it? errrr..I mean how big was it? the biggest I felt was a 6.1 I'm so deprived...or would that be depraved?
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  • Heineken HelenHeineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    I saw this on the news this morning... biggest one in 20 years in the UK apparently. There was also one in Donegal yesterday which was either the biggest ever in Ireland or the biggest ever in Donegal... what the fuck's going on? :o
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
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  • MattCameronKicksButtMattCameronKicksButt Posts: 4,317
    prism wrote:
    cool, how big is it? errrr..I mean how big was it? the biggest I felt was a 6.1 I'm so deprived...or would that be depraved?

    5.2. Whatever that means? I never even noticed! I was writing to failedpersephone at the time. Obviously whetver she was saying was more interesting. :)
  • Fender_ManFender_Man Posts: 408
    I live about 15 miles from the epicentre. Latest reports put it at about 5.2. Scared the living shit out of me, the whole house shook with things falling of shelves and the like. The dog spent the rest of the night on our bed, she hasn't done that for years.
    Not the sort of thing we're used to in this part of the world. I could only liken it to the after shock of a bomb going off, the first thing I thought was there had been an explosion. Doesn't look like anyone has been hurt and damage to buildings is minimal ( a few damaged chimneys and roofs).
  • prismprism Posts: 2,440
    MattCameronKicksButt wrote:
    5.2. Whatever that means? I never even noticed! I was writing to failedpersephone at the time. Obviously whetver she was saying was more interesting. :)

    it means the Richter scale, which mesures the seismic energy released by an earthquake. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richter_magnitude_scale



    back in '96 we had one and with this particular one a few seconds after the shaking stopped we could hear the sound of earth groaning(for lack of a better way to descibe it) it was absolutely the creepiest sound i have ever heard. i do love the feel of the ground rolling under my feet though :)
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  • MattCameronKicksButtMattCameronKicksButt Posts: 4,317
    prism wrote:
    it means the Richter scale, which mesures the seismic energy released by an earthquake. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richter_magnitude_scale



    back in '96 we had one and with this particular one a few seconds after the shaking stopped we could hear the sound of earth groaning(for lack of a better way to descibe it) it was absolutely the creepiest sound i have ever heard. i do love the feel of the ground rolling under my feet though :)

    I meant, I'm not sure how much 5.2 or 5.6 is on the richter scale compared to a place like California where it's more common.
    It sounds creepy to me. It's just not the norm here. Like Helen said, what the hell's happening?
  • Heineken HelenHeineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    :eek: seems there's an earthquake somewhere every day

    http://earthquake-news.newslib.com/

    Apparently the one in Donegal (not yesterday but Thursday it seems) was at the exact same time as one in Norway... surely Norway's not used to them either. There's suggestions it's something to do with the satellite shot down. And there's warnings of another one in Donegal :o


    http://www.irishnews.com/articles/540/5860/2008/2/23/581023_337587725530Expertswa.html

    Apparently there are fault lines in Dublin :o I'm soooo sorry I googled all this :D

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    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • burtschipsburtschips Posts: 734
    yeah, i felt it, and it was weird as fuck... thought i may have been having some kind of fit.
    Salut baloo
  • Heineken HelenHeineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    burtschips wrote:
    yeah, i felt it, and it was weird as fuck... thought i may have been having some kind of fit.
    :o awwww, ya ok? Musta been a bit of a shock.
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • Brisk.Brisk. Posts: 11,567
    what time and day?
  • Heineken HelenHeineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    I BrisK I wrote:
    what time and day?
    last night/this morning about 1am ish.
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • Brisk.Brisk. Posts: 11,567
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    last night/this morning about 1am ish.

    holy crap

    i think i felt it

    i remember a few seconds of shaking... and i was wandering what the fuck my brother was doing as you can hear everything in my house.

    My monitor and pc was vibrating/shaking and i was like wtf im not kicking it or anything
  • MattCameronKicksButtMattCameronKicksButt Posts: 4,317
    I BrisK I wrote:
    what time and day?

    This morning. About One O'Clock. So you didn't feel it either then? It figures...

    (Looks like it was just me that didn't notice then).
  • Cropduster84Cropduster84 Posts: 1,283
    Yeah, I'm in Lincoln and it shook my house for about 15 seconds.....


    Was strangely cool.....
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  • burtschipsburtschips Posts: 734
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    :o awwww, ya ok? Musta been a bit of a shock.


    it was just very strange!!! but screw the earthquke, i just found out i get to work on a hedgehog rescue centre which is very exciting!! he he.
    Salut baloo
  • Heineken HelenHeineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    burtschips wrote:
    it was just very strange!!! but screw the earthquke, i just found out i get to work on a hedgehog rescue centre which is very exciting!! he he.
    :D awww... hedgehog rescue? Hedgehog's are cute... we'd one growing up... well it was obviously wild but we'd leave milk out and it'd come up and drink it and it wasn't too bothered by us at all once it got its milk :D

    anyway... ahem :o back on topic.

    Glad everyone's ok... and let's hope this is the last of the earthquakes
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    I was on the 'phone to this sax player mate of mine in Spain, and I was sitting on the living room floor. I didn't so much feel the vibrations beneath me as above me. I could hear things moving about upstairs, and the chair beside me shook.

    I said to the sax player, "I think we just had an earth tremor here in England", and he nearly pissed himself laughing at me. (That's British ex-pats for you.)

    Mind you, when my big brother comes to visit, and he starts snoring, the walls start shaking and there's not that much difference.
  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    burtschips wrote:
    it was just very strange!!! but screw the earthquke, i just found out i get to work on a hedgehog rescue centre which is very exciting!! he he.

    ok rescuing the odd hedgehog i can understand.... and maybe setting it free again straight away i can understand.. but what on fucking earth is a Hedgehog Rescue Centre!!!! are there even that many that need rescued???? i' would have guessed about 6 a month and all of them would be from a cattle grid...


    hedgehog rescue centre??? seriously?

    thats made my day that has :D
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • Super VedderSuper Vedder Posts: 1,531
    dunkman wrote:
    ok rescuing the odd hedgehog i can understand.... and maybe setting it free again straight away i can understand.. but what on fucking earth is a Hedgehog Rescue Centre!!!! are there even that many that need rescued???? i' would have guessed about 6 a month and all of them would be from a cattle grid...


    hedgehog rescue centre??? seriously?

    thats made my day that has :D

    your reply has made mine :D

    I think ive seen more dead ones than alive ones so whats the point in setting up a rescue centre?? :confused:

    They always seem to get far too squished to be rescued anyway, poor little critters...


    edit* oh and yeah i felt the earthquake *quickly getting back on topic* i thought my dog had just come running into the room and the floor had made my monitor shake a bit. I even looked out the window as i thought someone was outside making my pc shake :o wierd.........
    Black, the greatest without a doubt........
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