Earthquake felt across England

Earthquake felt across England

news.bbc.co.uk

People from across central and southern England have reported an earth tremor.

The BBC has received calls from people in Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Leicestershire, Berkshire and the West Midlands reporting an "earthquake".

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Related News Links:
www.emsc-csem.org
earthquakes.usgs.gov

Related AboveTopSecret.com Discussion Threads:
Quake Watch 2008

Well, this is interesting. I felt it here in Sheffield, and according to someone who posted in the Quake watch thread, it was noticed in manchester too.

Nothing on BGS earthquakes yet, at least I can't get a connection, maybe server overload.

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reply to post by apex


I'm playing Star Wars Galaxies and one of the people in my guild told me about it almost immediatly. There's alot of quakes happening today

ya!!!

im way way in the north near the borders and i fealt it!!!,it was bizzare!!,thought someone was breaking ino the house by ramming down the walls!

apparently people closer to the epicentre heard a loud bang!?

15 mile N east of lincon is the Epicenter



4..7 on rictor scale

No idea. I filled in the felt quake form on USGS, according to that I felt it at intensity of about II.

I wish I hadn't been asleep at the time, but until this happened, I had no reason to be up.

USGS reported felt map

[edit on 26-2-2008 by apex]

I woke up, and I thought it was a poltergeist or an amazingly realistic nightmare, it SCARED THE HELL OUT OF ME!

4.7, eh? Seems a bit odd to me, that earthquake in Iran, now this?

4.7?

Californians sleep through those, just wait till you have a 7.1 or greater.

There was a theory somewhere about too much wwater in the ground providing extra lubrication for ground movement I think?

Wasn't 4.7 also the measurement of the North Korea nuke test, or did I dream that!?

it was more like a singular tremor,sorta like something just gave way and popped.

i was jamming away on the guitar,went down well!

Originally posted by 2stepsfromtop
4.7?

Californians sleep through those, just wait till you have a 7.1 or greater.

There was a theory somewhere about too much wwater in the ground providing extra lubrication for ground movement I think?

LOL yeah, but UK people are known for not feeling a earth quake in their entire lives.

I still haven't

[edit on 26-2-2008 by _Phoenix_]

Sky News reporting tremors felt from London to North Yorks and Cheshire across to Norfolk.

Didn't feel a thing.
Still, North East is always behind the rest of the country!

Felt at Milton Keynes, but rather quite

Originally posted by 2stepsfromtop
4.7?

Californians sleep through those, just wait till you have a 7.1 or greater.

There was a theory somewhere about too much wwater in the ground providing extra lubrication for ground movement I think?

Yeah, but we here in the UK are a daft lot, who seem incapable of coping with a 4.7, or about 1 inch of snow without cities shutting down, massive infrastructure disruption(mainly with snow) and general panic. Maybe thats the real reason we don't have guns anymore, since a slightly irritating natural phenomena comes along and everyone runs around screaming.

Just found out the rating....4.1? Phew! I thought it may have been bigger...I'd say....watch them weebles wobble.

Originally posted by Freeborn
Sky News reporting tremors felt from London to North Yorks and Cheshire across to Norfolk.

Didn't feel a thing.
Still, North East is always behind the rest of the country!

In London here, I also didn't feel a thing, but on the other thread they are saying some people in London have felt it, but I didn't feel anything in my area.

Hi everyone...I felt it too...my god, my heart was in my mouth!!
It started as a slight rumble that gradually got louder, thought the
house was about to come down, I am living in Ilkeston near Derby.

Just sat there about as inocent as I can be with my Airedale, writing
an email then suddenly thought...damn noisy neighbour but shortly
afterwards common sense began to sink in... thought she'd learned
some new techniques.

I'm glad it was just an earthquake, thought I was about to encounter
some demon from the 5th dimension or George W Bush had targeted
my house or something.

stop the world I want to get off.

morg

Originally posted by 2stepsfrom top
Californians sleep through those, just wait till you have a 7.1 or greater.

It's true....I have

One of them I was passed out drunk off my bum...

I was playing EVE online and someone jumped off in the middle of something important in game. He told me had to go b/c there was an earthquake in Nottingham and he said his family was freaked out. I refused to believe him so the first thing I did was jumped to ATS to see if it was true SURE ENOUGH!

Originally posted by morg9000


I'm glad it was just an earthquake, thought I was about to encounter
some demon from the 5th dimension or George W Bush had targeted
my house or something.

LOL!

Let's hope we don't get a worse aftershock.