UK Earthquake!

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2008-02-27 03:00am

Damn thing woke me up, thought I'd imagined it. Bah.

EDIT: Still seems to be a 5.2 one. And LOL at the Hull comment. Earthquake hit, how would you know?

And 'quakes, like other extreme events, aren't that rare here.

Dartzap · Post by **Dartzap** » 2008-02-27 03:15am

I didn't feel nought

mind you, I'm even further south than Orange.

And 'quakes, like other extreme events, aren't that rare here.

I know we're the capital of big windy things, but I didn't know we did earthquakes on a regular basis.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2008-02-27 03:40am

There have been several notable geological events over the last decade, but none like this since the mid-eighties.

Felt like a lorry that wasn't passing by all that quick.

Zac Naloen · Post by **Zac Naloen** » 2008-02-27 04:09am

Man, I didn't feel a thing in Reading.

5.2 is pretty awesome for a quake. Got a txt from a friend in Manchester at 1am that woke me though

DaveJB · Post by **DaveJB** » 2008-02-27 04:30am

I'm less than 10 miles from the epicenter.

Oddly enough though, it didn't seem like that big of a deal to me. I live on one of the main roads into Lincoln, so we get huge trucks passing by and shaking us all the time. Just seemed like 4 or 5 of them going past at once!

Shroom Man 777 · Post by **Shroom Man 777** » 2008-02-27 05:28am

Fucking flatulent aliens trying to surfboard through time and space in Cardiff.

Tatterdemalion · Post by **Tatterdemalion** » 2008-02-27 05:29am

Yeah, woke me up too. When your room is high up in a large tower block it's really, really unpleasant to feel the building rocking beneath you.

Oskuro · Post by **Oskuro** » 2008-02-27 05:42am

It was a bit surreal for me when people around Stormwind (a city in World of Warcraft) began screaming "EARTHQUAKE! EARTHQUAKE!".

Crazedwraith · Post by **Crazedwraith** » 2008-02-27 07:24am

I was awake for it. I just though something large was going past the window or the washing machine was acting up again at first. Then everything started shaking and i was wondering if the machine was about to explode. Then I realised it was probably an earthquake.

Dartzap · Post by **Dartzap** » 2008-02-27 08:07am

Apparently we get hit by 200 'quakes per year. At least its a nice round number.....

tim31 · Post by **tim31** » 2008-02-27 08:21am

Dartzap wrote:Apparently we get hit by 200 'quakes per year. At least its a nice round number.....

Imagine living in Japan or California..!

Teebs · Post by **Teebs** » 2008-02-27 09:41am

I was almost asleep and felt the whole room shake. My first thought was that someone had sneaked into my room and hidden under the bed and then shook it after a while, shows how common earthquakes are here.

Havok · Post by **Havok** » 2008-02-27 01:53pm

tim31 wrote:
Dartzap wrote:Apparently we get hit by 200 'quakes per year. At least its a nice round number.....
Imagine living in Japan or California..!

Quakes are just fun here, up until 7s and shit.

wjs7744 · Post by **wjs7744** » 2008-02-27 07:49pm

My bed is on the ground floor, less than five meters from a main road, so I'm fairly used to lorries going by and shaking the house. The only thing really remarkable about this was that it went on for longer.

...

Of course, it being early in the morning, my (half asleep) brain soon turned to "OMG! The apocalypse! The zombies are coming!". Just goes to show that you shouldn't watch horror films late at night, I guess. And how rare earthquakes are too, I suppose.

tim31 · Post by **tim31** » 2008-02-27 08:55pm

havokeff wrote:
tim31 wrote:
Dartzap wrote:Apparently we get hit by 200 'quakes per year. At least its a nice round number.....
Imagine living in Japan or California..!
Quakes are just fun here, up until 7s and shit.

Hold on to your arse, Hav. A 7 might not be that far away

Big Orange · Post by **Big Orange** » 2008-02-27 09:06pm

Here's a home video of the quake from the BBC website. Very Cloverfield.

tim31 · Post by **tim31** » 2008-02-29 06:53am

*snort* yeah, if the cast of Cloverfield sounded as though they were about to start singing 'consider yerselves, at 'ome! consider yerselves, part of the furni-cha!'

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2008-02-29 07:34am

No giant monster = lame.

I at least wanted tripods out of the ground.