Mini Earthquake

Wow this was right out of the blue not sure if anyone near the Sheffeild area in the UK felt that mini earthquake 5 mins ago but that was really werid never felt anything like that before in my life. I turned round to see my cat bouncing across the floor.

 

I'm in Berkshire and I just felt it as well, the doors of my videogame cupboard were shaking and they are kind of noisy, it was nothing major but very freaky!!! :drool: It's like time freezes and you don't know what's happening...

It's a pretty rare occurence a quake in the UK...

 

you will get used to :lol:

 

I guess, I lived a couple of months near LA years ago and you get one regularly... but here...

 

fuck me i thought i was gonna get butt fucked by a ghost.... then 5mins later LBC callers started chatting about it. Thank god i wasnt going crazy!

 

you got it paulo as well in london! Wow thats crazy that.

 

Same here!!! I thought cupboards would fell!!!

This one guy is completely drunk on LBC, he's so funny!!!

 

My housemate was talking to his girlfriend in lincoln - she felt it then a second later he did! I somehow didn't though, despite being in the next room!

 

Im from sheffield, got the full fucking force of it here. I was asleep and sat up and everything was shaking n stuff was smashing n falling of the walls.

 

I felt nothing up here in Scotland, but I am interested in the scale of it considering things were shaken off walls etc. Sounds like a big one for the UK!

 

Here is the first report I found:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2008nyae.php

BBC

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7266136.stm

 

i`m in west london and didn`t feel anything :-(

 

Strange though because no-one else on my street appears to be awake.

 

Was aparently 4.7 on the scale and epicenter 15miles from Lincon.

 

and I thought it was just me :/

scared me a little bit at the time =/

 

Felt it a little, well I thought someone was jumping about in the room above until my mate came in saying there was a mini-quake. And I'm in Preston, seems a fair bit of the country had a little shake.

Sky News now have a proper hard on over this though... It's only a minor shake, sheesh...

 

I was always under the impression that London was a seismically stable area...

 

They'd probably have full on sex if they where in Japan then :110: We get 5.0 quakes quite a bit to be honest.

Yakumo

 

I remember a fairly big one (probably 4 or 5) in Greece. I was on the 5th floor of some cement apartment block at the time. It wasn't scary in itself, but most of the buildings in that twon are cracked up from Earthquakes, so it makes you wonder if it might come down. The girls I was with were screaming (they were British and American). The greeks didn't even notice.

They say the UK one was 5.3 on the Richter scale, which is classed as 'moderate'.

 

Hmm, contradictory reports so far - 4.7 to 5.3. It was like that when we had ours last year - they said it was around a 5 or 6, but it turned out to be 4.3!

They're saying slight structural damage. There was major structural damage here, and yours is supposed to have been stronger. Maybe it'll transpire that it wasn't quite that high, as was the case for us.