Brits - EARTHQUAKE! Did you feel it?

About 12.55 tonight I was playing on my PS2, when all of the sudden the house shook! Frightening! Anyway I didnt think too much of it until my mum texted me a few minutes ago, and I found this on the beeb's news site

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2275158.stm

hell YES

I thought my elderly mother had fallen over so rushed to see if she was ok. To my comeplete surprise, she was standing upright staring at me. I could hear the pipes underneath the radiator rumbling and moving.. I was confused - My mother couldn't feel anything, but I could hear the rattling from the tremors. Then I thought that mebbe it was my neighbour. After about 6 seconds, it stopped. My mother thought I was dreaming.

I was more freaked how afterwards, all the doors on my wardrobe were wide open. That freaked out my mother too - She was scared that it may have been something supernatural.. But yeah, I was shaking.. The thought of it being an earthquake crossed my mind - But it seemed too strong for the UK? But yeah, I flicked on to Sky News and all the reports are starting to come through now..

Wow an earthquake:rolleyes:

what's the big frickin deal?

Didn't feel a thing.

Wow an earthquake

what's the big frickin deal?
Yeah, but living in Mexico your probably have an earthquake every other week, but Britain doesn't lie along a fault line so we don't get quakes very often.

Are you sure it was an earthquake or was it Julie throwing a hissy fit for losing to Maike?:rolleyes: :p

Barrie, if I had any slight inkling of what the hell you were on about, I'd still say it was purely seismic.

Julie and Maike played Minature golf yesterday and Maike won. Did you not see the thread?

Originally posted by Cassius

Yeah, but living in Mexico your probably have an earthquake every other week, but Britain doesn't lie along a fault line so we don't get quakes very often.

Actually I live in Los Angeles

So I guess I've gotten used to it, I remember sleeping through the Northridge quake lol (if any of you know where that was)

I was watching TV...the open window rattled and the door rattled for a few seconds, at the time I just thought it was a freak gust of wind...bizarre.

Didn't notice a thing :rolleyes:

I was chatting to snuff at the time of it happening but cos i live close to a railway track i thought a train had derailed or something, which scared the shit out of me since my house would be the first to be hit:eek: , i looked out the window and didnt c any train and then heared on the radio just before i went to bed that it was an "earth tremor":)

This year in Germany was an earthquake too !

Barrie - Nah I think I must have ignored it.

The epicentre was Dudley! Bloody Birmingham! But it was miles underground so the only damage was some chimneys knocked over. I mean it is exciting for us! Being as we don't run along a fault line I can't work out how we can have one, unless we are feeling the effects of some activity somewhere else. Either that or it was just a congregation of obese brummies jumping up and down.

I did, jaysus. Ive never felt one before, I had no fucking clue what was going on! And yes, the brummies were celebrating their win over Everton :rolleyes: tossers...

My friend thought we were being bombed :o

Heh.. epicentre was in Dudley, as you pointed out.. Not Birmingham. Blame the Yamyams in the Black Country! For once, wasn't the fault of Brummies! ;)

I didn't feel a thing :o
i was asleep

but did the earth move for you last night ??? ;)

Nope! No tremors here! ;) I only heard about it on the news this morning...

But it was miles underground so the only damage was some chimneys knocked over.

Joey, I don't think the depth of the quake purely creates the magnitude. I think much deeper quakes can be stronger; other factors come into the mix which together create the magnitude.

However do correct me if I'm wrong....

But it was miles underground so the only damage was some chimneys knocked over.

Joey, I don't think the depth of the quake purely creates the magnitude. I think much deeper quakes can be stronger; other factors come into the mix which together create the magnitude.

However do correct me if I'm wrong....

I was asleep, but I woke up when the bed was vibrating. It was just like the Exorcist! :) It was only a baby earthquake. I experienced a real earthquake in Greece years ago and that was frightening. I went straight back to sleep after the event.

Nope, hehe. Other people at school felt it but I didn't notice anything.

I must have had my music on loud ;)

Nope i was sleeping but people in my school did notice it!

Jonny, what made you the resident Seismologist! ;) That's just what I heard, I am not so clued up as your good self obviously.

YSL , well it technically is in that area.

Double Fault... are you sure that wasn't your recently installed Vibrabed playing up?

Anyway, in true movie style... a unfinished glass of water was on my desk whilst it happened, when it began too shake it was weird.