18-01-2013, 13:47
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East Midlands Earthquake
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-21073263
I was asleep, having gone to bed about an hour earlier, but my daughter was awake and felt it.
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18-01-2013, 14:07
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RIP Tigger - 12 years?!
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Re: East Midlands Earthquake
It's weird that we can get earth tremors in this country without being anywhere near a fault line. I remember back in 1990, I think it was, and I was banging away happily at a programming problem, on the fifth floor of Bolton Institute, never giving a moment's thought to such absurd notions as earth tremors in the UK.
I'm still not sure about this, because it felt so surreal I'm not sure what happened...but for just a moment it felt as if the entire tower block shifted slightly.
Mind you, it could be worse; consider Japan...no less than four continental plates meet directly under it. If the early colonists thirty-odd thousand years ago had had seismometers and the scientific knowledge to use them and correctly interpret the results, I doubt Japan would ever have been settled!
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18-01-2013, 14:10
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Re: East Midlands Earthquake
Apparently, it's caused £20,000,000 worth of improvements.
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18-01-2013, 14:16
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Re: East Midlands Earthquake
good news thats theres no signs of human fatalities.
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18-01-2013, 14:24
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Re: East Midlands Earthquake
Was thinking about earthquakes while i was burning some disc last night, completely missed that one though.
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20-01-2013, 10:14
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Re: East Midlands Earthquake
At least the earth moved for someone. 
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20-01-2013, 11:58
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Re: East Midlands Earthquake
I didnt feel a thing compared to the one in 2005 that I totally felt and shook all my shelves and computer.
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