Not sure where to stick this, so please move it to wherever it feels most at home.

My girlfriend who lives in Leeds, W, Yorkshire has just phoned me up sounding shaken. She said that her whole house has just shook, that furniture was moving and it felt like an earth quake.

Lots of neighbours then came rushing out and had felt the same.

I phoned the police who were in Wakefield, a few miles away and said they had experienced it too......as had the hundreds of callers that were ringing them at that moment.

Anyone any idea what this could be? Never heard of earth tremors in Yorkshire.

CX.

Felt it in St Helens too... weird... lasted about 10-15 seconds

Thank god im not alone.Im in derby and felt an earthquake .
I have never felt anything like that before.I am officially scared right now .
Everything was shaking for what seemed like forever.I hope that its a one off.

[edit on 26-2-2008 by tracey ace]

all over the uk as far down as harrow,

i felt something odd a little while ago

Sounds pretty scary.

And please,please,please nobody bring up or blame this on some Planet X somehow.

Sky News is reporting that these hve been felt acros Britain, not sure about the cause yet though.

Will post a link when one i find one.

EMSC now says it was a magnitude 5.3

4.7 im in the midlands and im almost crying.
I need my mother i think.

i have a craked double glazed window now



That was a mighty shake! Im in preston lancashire!

That was cool but obviously could be a sign of worse to come!

Magnitude still unknown but i bet the gov will say a low 4 or a mid 3 on richter scale.

Im still shaking

that was the strangest thing ever!

I hope everyone is safe and ok...

Not sure how England is laid out but a lot of other people are on some sites are saying they felt stuff to and have different city names then the ones you guys posted.

The earth is always up to something it seems, let's just hope this was her reminding the world she is still here and active and not leading to something bigger.

Oh good, I wasn't going mad (my mum and dad both slept through, and looked at me puzzled when I asked them if they felt the house shake...)
There I was, watching Shaun of the Dead (on DVD, can't do with ad breaks) and everything starts wobbling!

Not good for my nerves!

Oh, I'm in South Leeds

[edit on 26/2/08 by FudgeStix]

Reads as magnatude 4.7 on the EMSC website.

Just had it here in Blackpool too, gave everythin a damn good shake and was quite noisy too.

Is it normal for a quake to be felt over such a large expanse???

[edit on 26-2-2008 by Jimbowsk]

It seems like te whole world is gearing up for a big shake!

i cant believe it cracked my window! also did anyone notice other than me all the birds were singing briefly afterwards...and now it is eeirily quite again?

Thought it was my dog leaning into the desk until I saw my tv shaking

By 'eck that were a big 'un!

My first thought was secret nuclear tests over in Bradford, but then I guess it was just an earthquake afterall

Anyone felt any aftershocks yet? I can't go to sleep for the suspense

[edit on 26-2-2008 by citizen smith]

Both EMSC and USGS now says it was a magnitude 4.7. EMSC had it as 5.3 for a few minutes, and then they downgraded to 4.7.