Earthquake!!!!

[Car Freak]

Wow. Since when did UK get earthquakes? Definitely not something I envy. We sometimes feel aftershocks from the more powerful Indonesian earthquakes, and the last one happened in Nov or Dec last year. Really scary, it made the whole building sway. What made it worse, was the fact that I stay on the 24th floor! :eek:

[hesonly5]

I was asleep, wonder if it came to Cornwall, where nothing interesting happenes?

 

No, unless it somehow managed to bypass Devon :p

[Baltoman]

i felt it too... lol

[eleKtro]

I really want to be on like a flat area, and feel the earth move, amazing. Never felt one before. I know this might sound stupid now but actually being there is a whole different thing and I would be prety scared if it actually happended or I'd be like whey!

[Baltoman]

Im gonna watch the news today, they will absolutly talk about this here.

[The Queen]

Heard about this in English this morning. Never saw it on the news and Scotland obviously wasn't effected. Sounds cool though :D

[MCW]

I fell into my lawnmower last night, during a POWER cut creating quite a stir in my house... and quite a sore right foot

[hesonly5]

Heard about this in English this morning. Never saw it on the news and Scotland obviously wasn't effected. Sounds cool though :D

 

 

Apparently someone in Aberdeen felt it :p

[Pherelas]

Nothing and I was still up at that time watching coldplay dvd so if it was there would have felt it most probably. I'm down near Southamton though.

[eleKtro]

I fell into my lawnmower last night, during a POWER cut creating quite a stir in my house... and quite a sore right foot

 

Why was your lawn mower in the house?

[Pherelas]

Why was your lawn mower in the house?

 

I'm dreading the awnser ;)

[YeOldeTDUMan]

Wow. Since when did UK get earthquakes? Definitely not something I envy. We sometimes feel aftershocks from the more powerful Indonesian earthquakes, and the last one happened in Nov or Dec last year. Really scary, it made the whole building sway. What made it worse, was the fact that I stay on the 24th floor! :eek:

 

The UK gets quite a few earthquakes ... and about 33 Tornados a year! (the most per area of land anywhere in the world!)

 

you might find this useful for earthquakes ... from USGS (US Geological Survey) ... they track worldwide earthquakes and list magnitude and time etc ... below shows UK quakes 1990 to current day (including last nights!)

 

http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/eq_depot/2008/eq_080227_nyae/neic_nyae_h.html

[Andreas¹]

:eek: 5.0

 

That sounds like a real experience hope noone (or noones house) got hurt, wish I was there to feel it, too bad we have don't any (Or maybe.. I think one of my teachers told me about an earthquake long ago, long before I was born, he didn't like it :p ) of them here, or they are so small you can't feel them

[Loz]

If my sources are correct isn't Cornwall full of old people & retirees? They probably slept through the entire thing lol.

 

You seem suspiciosly well informed :P

 

No, unless it somehow managed to bypass Devon :p

 

I forgot about Devon somehow. Even though i went there yesterday.

[Baltoman]

off topic: pressurized, why does you location says Englandland?

[Loz]

off topic: pressurized, why does you location says Englandland?

 

For the general American population :P It was gonna be Englandshire.

 

Its a joke by the way :)

[Baltoman]

hmm, okay

[MCW]

Why was your lawn mower in the house?

 

It wasn't. I was in the garage trying to find out where all power had gone, and it got in the way!

[DriftNismo]

Damn, i didn't feel it but i'm all the way down in Middlesex (about 10 mins on train from Central London) but everytime i go to my grand-parents house in Los Angeles i feel earthquakes. It's pretty fun once you realise they're not serious. But i'm guessing yours was serious.

[eleKtro]

I fell into my lawnmower last night, during a POWER cut creating quite a stir in my house... and quite a sore right foot

 

It wasn't. I was in the garage trying to find out where all power had gone, and it got in the way!

 

Well that got me :D haha

[Who]

Apparently you could feel it here in Wrexham

 

my house is basically built on a sand tip. 5 feet underground and you get nothing but sand. the lack of solid ground probably dampened it out. i was even awake when it was 'happening' although i got absolutely nothing :(

 

My GF (who lives on the other side of town about 2.5 miles away) felt it, cause her house actually has a decent foundation.

[Baldy]

I know you were awake as I shouted Earthquake on MSN haha

[hesonly5]

I forgot about Devon somehow. Even though i went there yesterday.

 

Nice to hear it was a memorable experience ;)

[Pherelas]

I've never even felt a tremour, what goe's through your head when it happens? I was reading bbc news story (on website not TV incase anyway asks how i read tv) and there was a comment with someone saying "I thought I was going to die). Now sounds sounds compleatly rediculous or is it a paniky situation?

[ShadowGT]

When i felt my first quake while on holiday i wasnt as much scared as i was in shock "Like whoa the ground is shaking" unless it's big, quakes arnt that scary.