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Our whole house just shook for about 5/10 seconds :erm:

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Same here - Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeze.... (Loughborough)

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my housemates just felt but i somehow missed it :S

in stafford btw

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Did anyone feel it?
I'm in Manchester and the house just shook:erm:

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Yea nearly shook me out of my chair!! I'm in Oldham!!

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Scared me n the kids silly............... it was strong............

hubby slept? LOL

Scarey..............

Edit - mate in London felt it too......................???
Edit: and manchester???

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Lasted a bit longer here!!

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Lol where's my post gone?

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Big shake here in west yorks (hudds).

Was watching some scary stuff when it happened! Had a freaky couple of seconds!

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Felt a tremor a few minutes ago. Just before 1am in boro. Trippy

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I didn't feel it :(:(:(

My friends in York and Essex did though :(

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either it was one or a explosion!!

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Sth Manchester. Had tremor here as well. Glad you lot were about, as I thought I was imagining things.

add 1.11am. just listening to radio 2. Quake seems to be all over uk.

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Yep, and here in Notts.

Thought this new Call of Duty 4 had realistic effects! :D lol

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Same in NG17, very unsettling :eek:

I was sitting at my computer upstairs and it felt like someone had yanked my chair back, then I felt the house tremble and I thought I heard the wind pick up really loud as though a Tornado had just passed (not the aeroplane type) then it was over in about 15 seconds, went outside but it was calm so it didn't look like a Tornado.

I think we've had these quakes before where I live but it's the first time I've actually experienced one, makes you wonder what people who've gone through a proper quake must feel like if a small one like this causes alarm!!!

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Oh my goodness !
Just been woken up by this now out of nowhere.
I'm up in the loft and everything shook like it was about to fall. Loud rumbling sound for what seemed like ages.

It's certainly gone and hit the East Midlands.

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Where are you?
I'm in Wythenshawe?

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manchester to london is one hell of a range.................!

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Awww i feel so left out now lol

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Yeah i felt it in Middlesbrough aswell..

was just sat here at my PC, felt like someone gently nudging my chair, entire house was moving... was a little startled at first then i realised what it was.

Glad im not going crazy !

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Felt it in SK6 (Stockport) - Scary

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Shook me in East Anglia! Thought I'd had too much to drink, then I remembered I haven't had anything! :0*

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sky news are on it BBC must be dozing :p:

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Yep, BBC seem to be reporting nothing at the moment.

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We were just work by it in Leicester City!!

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Site? TV?

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tv right now, commentating now... 4.7 wow!

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They'll be the last to report...;)

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Oooh they have someone in on the phones to describe the experience........rofl


:LOL:

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I felt It In Bedworth

5 miles outside Coventry

2nd earthquake in 2 days

the new ring of fire is Born

RUN FOR YOUR LIVES

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I'm in Urmston. At first I thought Carrington had gone up, a tad scary.

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same, happened to ours, im in Birmingham/West midlands

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East Midlands seems to be the epicentre............. hmm more severe than here and in the middle of posters' experience. No links - just my thoughts lol.

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The centre was just east of Lincoln according to the map on the website.

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I thought the wife had passed wind :D

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Someone has got to do it, so here it goes....

Its Global Warming I tell you, they were all right, arghhhh.

Also felt it in Teesside.

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Here's what the Richter scale has to say:

http://mistupid.com/geology/richter.htm

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showing 4.9 now!

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1 centered in Dudley on monday morning 00.53 which i believe was 4.8 and 1 today just before 1am which I am not sure about

Both felt across large parts of England

sky news TV are on it

BBC must be fast a f**king sleep

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http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap...373674&A=Y&Z=8

Looks like Reepham took the hit!

The residents of Cleethorpes should improve their aim, they missed Mingingham by a long shot!



On a serious note, I do hope everyone is ok though.

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You got a link mate?

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Jeez - glad we build things out of brick here LOL

So it's the 2nd tremor that some people here have experienced in the last 24 hours?.............???

quote post #41

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I'm in the East midlands right now.
It really felt like a lorry was ploughing into your house. All the computer and things on my desk started to vibrate and it was really loud.

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BBC have just reported that the earthquake was 4.7(light to moderate) Epi centre located 30 miles south of London. Secondary quakes are possible. Radio 5 live now.


.31am add epicentre 30mls south of Kingston upon Hull.

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An Earthquake wouldn't wake the beeb up :rolleyes:

Oh wait, we just had one!

QED :D

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Humberside area been hit as well. Manchester also as well as Midlands.

Thought it was the refinery at Immingham again.

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posted earlier in thread:

http://www.emsc-csem.org/index.php?p...etail&id=79520

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Im from dudley, didnt feel anything on monday I must sleep like a baby hehe

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

At last!!!

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felt in North London too, Edgware area. Birds started screaming just before it happened!

scary stuff

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

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2275158.stm

Just to show you what you missed

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They are now saying epicentre was 30mls south of Kingston upon Hull.

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It's a pity it wasn't somewhere nobody in the uk likes

France for example

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Quote:

"People from across large parts of England have reported an earth tremor.

The BBC has received calls from people in Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Leicestershire, Manchester, Berkshire and the West Midlands about a "quake".

The tremor could be felt in central Birmingham at about 0100 GMT but it is unclear if it has caused any damage.

The West Midlands was hit by an earthquake in 2002 in the Dudley area that reached 5.0 on the Richter scale and caused damage to homes."


Oh, for God's sake, is that all they can do? It took me 3 minutes to find detailed info, and I'm in bed at the moment... and they call themselves "news" agency.... pathetic

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BBC = Bloody Bad Commentating

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http://maps.google.com/maps?q=53.321...2&f=d&t=h&hl=e

from:

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

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confirmed epicenter 15 miles from lincoln

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Its been upgraded to a 4.9 on the EMSC site and moved to Ludford (still East Lincs)

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It's funny you mention birds. I heard strange bird sounds too just after the earthquake.
Very bizarre.

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Now if you like earthquakes

no need to go to Indonesia

just stay at home

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woke my daughter up, shook the furniture and walls for about 5 secs, will be checking for damage in the morn lol (northwest near the coast):shocked:

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did you guys hear a bang i remember hearing it!

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Any car alarms go off?

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A few alarms seem to have gone off.
It's more the feeling inside the house that got me worried. Felt and sounded like everything was going to crash to the ground.

Right, I better get some sleep. See you all later in the day :)

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I guess the show's over..........

untl tomorrow........ dun da dun dun......?

'night all, glad to hear no-one suffered any harm. :)

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Coventry - WOW, not want to experience that again. Chair shook and moved, then the phone started to ring. I thought the foundations had given in.

OMG - Imagine a 7 or 8 on the richter scale, make you think.

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I imagine the only shock bigger than this quake Was if Coventry Had Beat Burnley

Oh Well 1 Shock will have to do

Until the Next One

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Felt it here in Cambridge, around 1am.



Very odd :erm:


I was sitting there playing COD4, & thought either that's a bloody realistic airstrike someone's launched at me, or there's a damn earthquake.

Heard this crazy shaking & then saw my damn TV start wobbling like mad, while the room shook.


No damage to anything AFAIK.

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We felt the tremors way up here in the Middlesbrough area (Stockton-on-Tees) at the same time (just before 1am).
It shook beds and a few things creaked and groaned slightly but no damage known as yet. This happened twice, approx 3 seconds each and approx 5 few seconds apart. Not violent but enough to wake up a light to moderate sleeper.
I was already awake in bed but it woke up others in the house (except the 5 year old who sleeps so deeply that the littke tike has now proved that she can in fact, as the saying goes, sleep though an earthquake! :) )

I've never felt one before and it was hard to describe but it sort of felt like a truck had crashed into a house very nearby, with all the vibrations but without any associated noise.

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Felt it here in Hartlepool too, bed started shaking and wardrobes.
Was chattin on the laptop at the time and loads of people said they felt it, so I knew straight away what had happened and I wasnt going crazy haha
Had a peek out of the window and it stirred a few houses and had some lights come on but that was about it.
First time my beds moved like that in years!

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OMG same here i thought it was my head!

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the bbc upgraded the story

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

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Earthquake Details
Magnitude 4.7
Date-Time Wednesday, February 27, 2008 at 00:56:45 UTC
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 at 12:56:45 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location 53.321°N, 0.314°W
Depth 10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program
Region ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM
Distances 50 km (30 miles) S of Kingston upon Hull, England, UK
70 km (45 miles) NE of Nottingham, England, UK
80 km (50 miles) E of Sheffield, England, UK
205 km (125 miles) N of LONDON, United Kingdom

Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 6.8 km (4.2 miles); depth fixed by location program
Parameters NST= 50, Nph= 50, Dmin=291.4 km, Rmss=1.02 sec, Gp= 54°,
M-type=body magnitude (Mb), Version=7
Source USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)


Event ID us2008nyae

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

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It's my second one :( Lot worse this time though - last time it was a gentle rumble, increasing in strength, then dying away. This time, really strong wobbling of the floor, pretty much instantly. Really strong shock waves - the vases in the hearth wobbled. No damage though - not that I can find.

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will we have a aftershock?

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Doubt it. Pretty unusual - we're not near any active plates. Makes you wonder what's going on :erm:

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probaly global warming

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:D

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I took the oppurtunity nature gave me and told the wife "yes i am that good without touching you i made the earth move for you" as she was panicky didn't see the funny side of it women huh.

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I ran for the door shouting WHATS GOING ON!??!??!... :D

(thought the house was about to fall down)

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No worries, it was just me starting my 4x4 :PP:

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that was scary. I been shaking for awhile still very nervious just cant sleep worried the flats would drop to the earth. If those was scared on the ground you can imagine what we felt in the gods.

I blame all the mariners celibrating the cup win;)

can we apologise for us yellowbellies waking everybody up.:angel:

Its now reporting the 3rd biggest earthquake in the uk now 5.3.

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Same here in Daybrook, it moved my bed a good 2ft.

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Reported to be felt in Sheffield rather badly too. Beds moved, equipment shook etc...

Never felt one myself :p:

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I slept through it, but my wife woke me up to ask me if the Earth had just moved for me !

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Apparently there was an aftershock caused by thousands of women slapping their menfolk for making the 'did the earth move for you' joke.

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It's all down to global warming. :spin:

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yeah felt it here in Kettering...

my bro in law is living in Gainsborough so kinda worried about him...and was only there over the weekend :O

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Nonsense this is god punishing us for having the moral decadence for our government to cut funding to physics research: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Physics-Funding/

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Sorry guys I had a girl round last night - I obviously made the earth move for everyone not just her.

Considering the last one of that strength was 1984 shows how often I get some doesnt it!

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Felt it in Top Valley was just about getting my head down house started shaking i flew out of bed to get my daughter has i got to her door it stopped, she was fast off and oblivious and the missus woke up with a stern look and said "What you doing?" thinking i'd been pratting about rofl.

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I'm in Middlesbrough and it woke me up didnt realise what it was though i thought my tv aeriel had fell down, was more of a cracking noise here than a rumble.

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Nah... Surely it has to be something to do with obesity and the growing number of immigrants.

Oh and by-the-way, THE END IS NIGH! :D

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The Daily Mail is blaming it on Polish immigrants.

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I am so embarrased

that was 2002

sorry for all the confusion

of course with speed of reporting like that I should join the BBC News Team

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OK here in Lincoln although it sounded like a train going through the house. Apparently there is some structural damage in the Gainsborough area although no injuries or major problems reported on our local news.

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I wonder how long it will take for that generic virral email to go around, about donating to the 'Lincoln earthquake appeal'....

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What's the Betting Insurers are discussing the next price hike to cover Earthquakes