Me and Laura have just been woken abrudtly with the whole house shaking vilently, a small tremor followed by a really big shake

I know this sounds stupid and a little overboard but it was really big! I have never in my life felt an earthquake but I am telling you this was real and not a twilight dream.

Just checked chimney stacks and surrounding houses and nothing visible

anybody else feel this ?

 

yep, woke me up, shaking the bed

earthquakes arent supposed to be that big in england!!!!

trying to register it on the uk earthquake page...but its crashed! typical...all of the UK are trying to log onto it!!

 

It's just being reported on Sky News Epiccnetre was reported as hull but geographically more like Mkt Rasen area. 4.7 on the rictor scale.

Scary stuff

unless you were lucky enough to sleep through it.

What a bizzare feeling that was

 

apparently 4.7 in richter scale and epicentre near hull :/

hehe....you beat me to it!!!!

they are scary, ok on hols etc, like Greece, they happen all the time, but not on home turf!!! its scary to be in your house that you think is all safe and then whoosh....it doing a blancmange impression!!?!?! what's all that about!!!!

 

linky BBC NEWS | England | Earth tremor felt across England

 

Just us two Lynz well our young'en too, cant believe the rest of the WYIOC are such heavy sleepers

how scary was that at the time

 

i was watching the tv when it happened totally sh*t myself thought house was going to colapse it shoke that bad.

and no bloody table in sight

on sky now said it was 5.3

 

Woke us up!

Heard a bang, felt a shake, like the bed had fallen off it's legs, and heard a rather loud "sh*t the bed!!" from my eloquent and expressive other half.

First thoughts were earthquake, then "get a grip, pillock". Dogs didn't bark, no car / house alarms going off. Sod it, back to sleep

Just heard on the radio that it was indeed a bit of a biggie for the UK

 

Didnt wake us up, good job really was dreaming about the gardener in the Desperate Housewives

cant believe scott slept through it thought he is such a light sleeper....

 

ooooops best say this is Sarah Logged on as Scott (although not sure if Scott dreams about the gardener in DH )

 

lmao!!! i promptly fell asleep on the laptop then!!!

tis very interesting, the whole of the UK is now saying "oooh what about the earthquake last night?!"

I wonder how many hanky-pankiers really did feel the earth move?!?!

 

Aye same.. here woke up to the shaking and went back to sleep...

Cyprus has loads or tremors so spending 3 years there means I'm 'experienced...'

 

Nope i didn't hear a thing but Brian and Kristie heard it and was talking about it this morning and they just couldn't believe that i slept through it...
Must have been having pleasant dreams....

 

clicky http://www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/ and fill in the questionnaire about it!

 

I felt it too, I txt Lynds when it happened. At 1.20am though I just sort of thought <Peter Griffin style> "What the hell was that?" At first I thought someone had crashed into one of the houses in the street. Like Mick, I've never felt an Earthquake before, I slept through the last one we had so it was new to me too.

It brings a point of realism if it originated in Hull and we felt it to that extent, imagine what Earthquakes in San Francisco and Japan are like...

 

exactly, we're reasonably safe in the UK from earthquakes, as we're not directly on top of a tectonic plate, we are sat on a number of old fault lines, but they are still moving even though the pressure is only small. hence every so often we get judders, on average, we have 200-300 quakes a year! luckily for us the quakes usually happen quite deep due to younger earth crust covering the fault lines, the one last night was estimated at 9 miles down. which is far!

 

I felt it too, was still up waiting to pick flis up frm leeds.
Couldn't believe how much the house shook.

 

I was in bed reading, felt like my bed was gonna take off.
Sat up in bed looking around, trying to figure out if it was real.
Felt like a reinactment of the Exorcist lol

 

I felt nawt, deep in mi sleep,saying that though allways told our debs i can make the earth move for her in the bedroom department

fire suit on ..

 

Yep I felt it,Appsolutely papped myself.........the last few weeks ive been hearing noises in the loft which I just presumed were mice or birds and went up last week to have a look..but nothing,then that happened this morning and......I automatically thought.......its a ghost,ive got a bloody ghost!!Ive got a cockatiel and the bell in the cage was ringing and my bed was shaking so honestly believed I had a ghoul living with me,and living on my own I NEARLY POOED MYSELF!! Turned the light on and it stayed on all night with me thinking "I wonder if thats why the previous occupier left" and "better get it on the market"!!
But radio made me feel better this morning......phew.....was gone ring yvette fielding up and get ghost hunters out
God im a wimp!!
I felt one in zante and that was a 6.2 and it was ALOT scarier,cars bouncing,windows cracking,people screaming.....not nice,I hate to be in a BIG one
Andy

 

Well me and Andy were fast asleep and didnt feel a thing

Would have liked to have been awake though just for the experience of what it feels like and to see the look on Andys face!!

 

me n all Ellie, bit miffed that i missed it.

 

i was 65ft in the sky on a cherry picker at the time in bolton and i didnt feel a thing,wish i felt it though to experience it.

 

At 1.20am?! What the hell?? You a burglar?

 

i was kicking out the zzzzz's!!!!! never felt a thing! even vic couldnt wake me up to tell me!

 

To be pedantic we are sat on a tectonic plate, just not on the very edge....LOL

I'm so used to 3000 ton deltic "visits" during the night I didn't notice !

Probably the 11:30 from King's Cross, zzzzzzz

 

i must be a high profile burglar then didnt know burglars used cherry pickers

 

yeah yeah just noticed that

edits.... we're not directly on top of a plate boundary!!!!!!!

my sister was proper scared, bless, she nearly pooed herself too

 

Interested to know what Stu was up to on the cherry pickler, as I have had some looooong nights up them in that area recently (Last week, Burnley)

 

Stealing Cherry Pickers