EARTHQUAKE IN CENTRAL ENGLAND

Has anyone in England felt this

i had only been in bed 15mins when my bed shook and my daughter and sister woke up scared as everything in my daughters room was shaking then when we come downstairs we got a bang

4.7 on ritcher scale at 1am this morning GMT

im in Doncaster my brother and sister in south kirkby pontefract also felt it which is 12miles from doncaster

the epicentre is 15miles North East of Lincoln

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2008nyae.php

Stuff here about it. There are more and more in England now.

It's nothing new in that part of the country, though; this has been happening for years. There's a lot of former mines around there, which is a contributing factor. I remember feeling one round there once - it felt like someone had lifted up the room for a few seconds, then put it back down! Kind of scary yet fun at the same time, lol. :)

Ive got sky news on

My mum lives on same street as me just a bit further down DIDNT feel a thing nor did one of my other sister who lives in Pontefract

Did the earth move for you dear??? :0)

I'm in Berkshire and I didn't feel a thing in my deep sleep :):)

so nobody got hurt... thats good:)

didnt know they had Earthquakes over there.

my bed did thanks .. and not in that way neither ;)



it was recorded at 5.2 now ... and the biggest one felt in the UK for 25 years

I was sound asleep on the creakiest bed in England...earthquake? its not an earthquake if it doesnt wake me up! :D

I remember reading about an earthquake in western England last summer.
"Britain is hit annually with up to 200 quakes but only 10 percent are strong enough to be felt", according to an article I read on MSN.

I thought my bed had been possessed and my mirror in the bathroom nearly fell of the wall, like I need 7 years bad luck! I'd just woke up from a bad dream and then my fekin bed starts shaking...lets say I was quite disturbed by the whole thing!

4.7 on the Richter Scale...? That's not that much...Shakes a few beds and paintings, but should not cause major damage, I guess.



Wow, it's been seven years already? You poor thing :)

M-G (just could not resist)

PS: Ranj: every country is hit by loads of small quirks of Mother Earth. In Holland, for example there are about 150 quakes a year, only 5 per cent can be felt, the biggest ones being in 1992 in the Deep South of Holland with a magnitude of 5.8 and 2 years later in the same area with a magnitude of 5.4 and in 2001 with a magnitude of 4.9. All of these were situated around the city of Roermond, due to the fact that there is a little faultline in the area.

M-G

It was 5.2-5.3 on the Richter scale. I live about 25 miles from the epicentre and I was woken just before 1am by my house shaking for about 5 secounds accompanied by a loud rambling noise. Quite scary and made me feel physcially sick.

That's according to the American Geological Survey.....The British Geological Survey recorded it at 5.2.

Yep, when Mother Earth rears herself all mere mortals shall quiver with fright!

Ranj: Ok :)

M-G (She Rules - no matter what)

Let's all be thankful that it wasn't on the same scale as the Anshin earthquake or the one in SF on the San Andreas fault line

That's not even possible in Western Europe: you need a big faultline to get mags like that or the one that caused the Tsunami in 2004. Over here there are only small to very small faultlines...I don't know for sure, but my best guess would be that they are simple not capable of producing quakes of tremendous magnitude.

M-G (9.1, 9.2)

I agree, I was just sayin, we should be grateful 4 that

There are faults of different sizes all over the place. Tectonic boundaries are the big ones where they are better described as fault-systems or something (I dunno - I was thrown off my Geology degree). Looking at the geological map of my local area somewhere in southern England, I can see half a dozen or so minor faults.

So, yes - you are right in a way. You're not going to get huge earthquakes in this neck of the woods.

The Bunsfield explosion in Hemel Hempsted a couple of years ago woke me up but didn't break any of my windows.

Im about the same distance away,I was up working on my pc when it struck,thought a plane for donny airport was coming down at first. Weirdest thing was the birds all started singing a few minutes after it struck.

no, but my bed did, and the whole room, and i'm in oxford, which is some way away from wherever it happened. i woke up and thought 'am i dying?' and then realised it wasn't me and then thought 'oh, it's an earthquake' and then went back to sleep. how cool am i?? ; )
must be something to do with being 8 months pregnant. puts things in perspective.

yes they did .... ! i have bloody pigeons in the trees outside my house and they did same ... !

hi...

well..i felt the earth quake at about 1am ..i jus went to bed and my monitor started vibratin on the computer table ..

nxt day i came to know it was an earthquake...

neo has now joined me ....

where's morpheus gone?

hahaah

where is the morpheus..?