Earthquake!!

[Mr Ed]

Did anbody else feel it last night? 5.2 on the richter scale, epicentre just south of grimsby.

I was staying in a hotel in manchester, it shook the pictures off the walls, and the telly fell off the cabinet...

[Jay]

first i knew of it was on the news. didnt feel a thing down in suffolk.

[Chris Harris]

The only rumble i felt was in my pants!!lol:biggerGrin:

 

sorry could'nt resist it, its the child in me!

[MasterBlaster]

Is that your first earthquake, Ed? Ain't they weird? I lived in Japan and they had tremors weekly.

[b101uk]

I felt it just and if I wasn’t on my PC chair with a slight wobble from the unlevel floor I probably wouldn’t have felt it as it was that slight and slow at about 1.2hz. for 15 to 20 sec

[Charlieh]

rattled our house in staffs well enough we thought one of the big beech trees next house had falled and hit the house! rattled all the cupboards in the bedroom

[MasterBlaster]

Does the UK experience many quakes???

[b101uk]

Does the UK experience many quakes???

 

no

 

see the bbc:

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

 

PREVIOUS QUAKES IN THE UK

April 2007 - Folkestone, Kent (magnitude 4.3)

December 2006 - Dumfries and Galloway (3.5)

September 2002 - Dudley, West Midlands (5.0)

October 2001 - Melton Mowbray (4.1)

September 2000 - Warwick (4.2)

April 1990 - Bishop's Castle, Shropshire (5.1)

July 1984 - Nefyn, north Wales (5.4)

June 1931 - in North Sea near Great Yarmouth (6.1)

[Shansen]

Welcome to the club.

[Dean Lofthouse]

The earth moved for our lass at about the same time, my fault sorry chaps.

 

Epicentre was Brighouse