GarnetFox

Did anyone else feel an earth tremor at 0.55am today?? I was sitting at my computer desk when I heard a loud grumble, the house shook and my computer desk swayed.

I am near Bristol and it was quite violent here. My other half was in Hereford and it was fainter, like a truck passing by.

Who else felt it??

InvisibleMan

yup

There was one lastyear i think but it was a small one. If this stretched from Derby down to north london, its was pretty big

Makalu

Woke me up....

Scary huh? Imagine what a really big one feels like!!!

Makes you feel kinda small dont it?

Mak.

[Edited by Makalu - 9/23/2002 7:13:29 AM]

BOB.T

only thing I noticed was gettin a text at some ridiculous hour

GarnetFox

You should expect them by now my little Bobajob.

Dream Weaver

Yep, thought I was being burgled Just heard the front/back doors shake, as though someone had walked in.

babydids2002

i did, thought someone had jumped into the house through a window

bioforger

iTrader: (1)

Yup im in Wilts, i was in bed at the time, my room physically moved Theres erm a small crack in the corner now which wasnt there before I think Im going to move...

ids

Folks

I live about 5 miles from the centre of where it happended.... man was it scary.....

Sounded like the whole house was gonna fall down. Aparently 4.8 on the richter scale and they recon over 5 damage occurs to buildings.....

Ids

mj

i was watching casino on telly when it happened. who needs dolby surround?

CrisPDuk

It's on the news now that over £5 million worth of improvements have been caused in the Dudley area

LeeMac

iTrader: (1)

I was woke up by "why is the house shaking, is it an earthquake" half asleep i said dont be stupid and went back to sleep

Lee, Rochdale

Redkop

Yep - woke me up - we were only 30 miles from the epicentre, thought a train had been de-railed off nearby track

HKSubaru

shook my scoob down to the end of the road!

ajw

woke up in Preston - thought I was having a fit funnily enough even though Im not epileptic - scary!

rayman

I was on the internet, when the whole f**kin room shook, thought someone was backing out the scoob from the garage.

LOL

FASTER MIKE!!

we had one in zante in thursday, quite bizare

MGJohn

Watching BASEBALL on C5 when heard what first appeared like a SAFEWAYS supermarket articulated lorry rumbling by - not unusual around here at 0100 hrs - IMMEDIATELY followed by a near violent shake which thrust me and my chair in the direction of the TV. If you've ever been lightly shunted from behind in your car it was exactly like that for me .... a little neck whiplash as I was simply not prepared for it as you would be when hearing a skidding car appraoching your boot. EERIE! By UK standards, this was quite strong in the Gloucester area. Previous lesser quakes I've slept through no bother ...

matt.bowey

But why did it happen??

Aren't we thousands of miles from a fault line?

Little Miss WRX

We may be away from a MAJOR fault line, but I am sure there are little cracks in the tectonic plates we sit on that are ground against occasionally, causing little rumbles such as this.

Anyone else got a better idea?

bioforger

iTrader: (1)

No dudley is right over a major fault line which comes all the way down from a fault under the atlantic This particular fault is moving the same distance every year at the same rate your nails grow or something It wont occur in the UK for another 10years probably.

Little Miss WRX

Cheers bioforger

Is the UK not slowly moving away from France? Might cause a bit of a problem with the Chunnel