Earthquake in UK

anyone up and felt it?

[mangotude]

am in central London and felt my building wobble for a couple seconds.

if its coming from Birmingham (150 kms ish) would imagine it was a lot more noticeable there.

[Lord Majestic]

I am in Birmingham and did not feel anything - I had a beer, but only one :)

When it happened last time in Dudley (2002) I did feel it.

[mangotude]

BBC first was saying West Midlands, now its saying Kingston-upon-Hull.

bit of a shift.

[Lord Majestic]

I doubt it was West Midlands - I definately felt the last one in Dudley, and nothing at all this time.

[briggidere]

i have a mate in leeds and one in lincolnshire and they both felt it. seems quite widespread

[King_Fisher]

If you want to feel real earthquakes come to California!

The last big one knocked me out of bed and split my fish tank.

Lasted for about 25 seconds with 4 or 5 aftershocks. Some people sleep through

them!...KF

[ytswy]

Heard on BBC radio this morning:

"You've all been emailing in about the noise it made, and I'd be interested if anyone had recorded the noise - I know it's unlikely but if anyone happened to be videoing something and happened to record the sound."

"What would people be doing at 1am that they would want to video?"

[pause]

"If you just send in the audio that will be fine, we don't need the video."

[surrealillusions]

I was up at 1am and felt the house shake..wondered what was going on though

:)

[Receptional Andy]

The earth moved for me too (in Bedfordshire) ;)

[aj113]

I live in Hull, it was bl00dy scary! I know you guys in California have it much worse but when you've never experienced it, you can get quite a shock(!) A bit like an African guy seeing snow for the first time perhaps.

[cazgh]

Dog went nuts and got me up - really thought it was exciting (need to get out more!)

Other half thought it was just the dog shaking and went straight back to sleep.

[topr8]

central london here - yes felt it!

[ronin]

Central London - didn't feel or hear a thing. Which is odd. I wonder if living in Japan a few years ago habituated me to the things?

[rj87uk]

So just wondering here but where is the most prone city for earthquakes?

[Syzygy]

You could have a look here:

Wordwide Earthquake Locator [tsunami.geo.ed.ac.uk]

An excellent resource. I still find it amazing just how many earthquakes occur everyday.

Syzygy

[edit_g]

And the sad aftermath of the quake... [www2.b3ta.com]

[briggidere]

that was good edit_g. Very funny

[AlexK]

12:57am I was attempting to upgrade CentOS4.6 to 5.1 (now completed) when it happened.

According to Radio 4 the epicentre was Market Rasen (Lincolnshire, about 50 miles south of Hull--which is my birth town--and the same distance east from Nottingham, which is where I now live). Richter 5.2 - bigger than the last one, about 8 years ago.

Sounded like a train running right outside the house (~2 secs) then doubled in intensity for ~half a second, then abruptly finished. Caused my LCD monitor to rock.

No big deal. Unless you were the guy whose chimney stack fell through his roof. And killed him.

[phranque]

i don't even get out of my chair for a 4.7 [earthquake.usgs.gov]

[AlexK]

The local Market Rasen paper [marketrasenmail.co.uk] disagrees with you ("Massive Earthquake"!), but quotes the same webpage. The town is very small, embedded in the middle of one of England's most rural, sleepy counties; the most excitement they normally get is from the local racecourse.

"De Aston students Kirsty Silson, Thea Garrett and Tom Fincham said it was the 'most exciting thing that's happened to us'!", which pretty much sums up the County.