Earthquake hits UK

[ratzz]

WOW! Only small (4.7), but that was REALLY freaky!

Just reading the posts in bed and the whole room shook!

Did the earth move for you?

[havic626]

Well it moved for me.......not cause of the earthquake but cause i passed some gas 
   <----exactly what i looked like when im breakin wind

[ratzz]

Well it moved for me.......not cause of the earthquake but cause i passed some gas 
   <----exactly what i looked like when im breakin wind

Hmmm ... that's about the most childish thing I've heard since I was in junior school, and definitely on this forum...

Update: 5.4 on the Richter scale -- broken bones for some people who had structural damage to their homes, but nothing more serious.

[Monkey]

I didnt feel it in southampton as i was sound asleep, but people other people felt a vibration, like lots lof large lorry's going past all at once

this is from the US geological Society and shows where people felt it, there are reports on the news and from other forums im on that it was felt as far as dumfrees,

[ratzz]

Felt it very strong in the NW of the UK -- just above Liverpool on the map is where I am, and although I wasn't asleep, it woke my daughter and wife up with the shaking of the house.

It was a very loud, low pitched rumble for about five seconds.

It was pretty scary for a while!

[Level42]

I wonder who that was in Holland who felt it..... 

[bfauska]

I know that earthquakes are considered relatively common to us on the pacific ocean, but I hadn't realized they were really uncommon to you guys. When was the last known earthquake that size in England? I've been in a 4 or 5 ish earthquake once, but my home town has had about 3 in my life, I just happen to be gone when they have them. I too was on my bed when it happened, I didn't feel much, but I could see the walls moving and hear it... it's definitely a weird feeling.

[ratzz]

Last one this strong was 24 years ago -- I remember that one too as it was in the morning as I was getting ready for school.

Apparently, there are about 200 a year here in the UK, but only about 25 are felt or mostly go un-noticed. There was another one a couple of years ago in central UK which did some damage but that was fairly localised.

This one was felt by so many here because it was so deep below the ground.

Read more here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7267567.stm

[polaris]

i believe the earths crust is really thick where we are, so they dont have as much effect or are not felt by people.
didnt feel nowt in the wales, but i do remember one when i was a kid that woke me up.

[ratzz]

i believe the earths crust is really thick where we are, so they dont have as much effect or are not felt by people.
didnt feel nowt in the wales, but i do remember one when i was a kid that woke me up.

Snowdon probably soaked up most of it! 

[polaris]

lol
im pretty much in the brecon beacons so i wonder if thats the reason, just saw on the map people in swansea felt it and thats only 15 miles away but at sea level.

[havic626]

Well it moved for me.......not cause of the earthquake but cause i passed some gas 
   <----exactly what i looked like when im breakin wind

Hmmm ... that's about the most childish thing I've heard since I was in junior school, and definitely on this forum...

Update: 5.4 on the Richter scale -- broken bones for some people who had structural damage to their homes, but nothing more serious.

      My body is full grown but my mind stayed in junior high, and wow if thats the most childish thing you heard on this forum, wow, i am really suprised

[ark_ader]

Did Morcambe fall into the sea? 

No?

Darn it.


Floods,  weather, Foot & Mouth and now earthquakes. 

What ever next?

[Jdurg]

I live in New England (not the old one you live in  ) and we last had an earthquake here about five years or so ago.  VERY minor and really you only heard it and didn't really feel it.  I remember because it felt like a truck had driven by and I heard a very faint rumble.  Didn't think anything of it until the news reported that an earthquake was recorded in Southern New England.