Woohoo EarthQuake in UK
 

Hiya's,
At 00:55am here in uk, I was about to logoff and go to bed

Damn quake just hit lol

Rare in uk as such but boy this was a real shaker lol

Any others in midlands are or elsewhere feel it ??

Whole damn areas lit up with houselights going on lol

People outside me

I say woohoo in title as-in it's mild quakes we get in the uk and nothing like other regions suffer from

Gonna wait up a few and see if news24 reports it

Only ever felt 2 before this but this was the strongest

Well Ciao

Def

I didnt think the UK was anywhere near any tectonic plate edges... interesting:)

I wondered what that was!

I felt 2 short shakes, followed by another two short shakes a few seconds after.
I put it down to my senses playing tricks on me, but it fits the time.

What fun!

I am in York.
Anyone know the Epicenter?

*edit* British Geo survey site is allredy down!

It's not, but there are enough big forces in the rocks round here to make a small quake
every now and again. We are still rising from the last ice age, we have old fault lines
with stored up energy, we have open cast mines that can cause rock shifts as well as all
the more subtle causes of rock tension.

Felt nothing here in Swansea. But its Wales :lol:

Nonetheless, I'm now at Zombie Threat Level Yellow.

I live in Southern California what else can I say. :D

Hope tho everyone was OK. :yep:

a nuke went off, iranians tested one.. america already launched nukes in retaliation.. check cnn :huh::huh:

















:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:: rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

:nope::nope::nope:

I'm sorry, I had a bad curry last night.:oops:

Awww!! Dang you Dan! I spend all my money on Ferret Bites in-case we have one too and the local petstore collapses! Also, the fricking toxic cloud we got here bleached me white!
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PRELIMINARY LOCATION 24 km SW of Grimsby/4 km North of Market Rasen
PRELIMINARY MAGNITUDE 5.2 ML

Felt it here and I am about 50 miles from Lincolnshire. We all survived in our household

I was in a very minor earthquake a few years ago. Various fixtures in my home shook, and that was that. I did wonder what it was at the time, and if I'd thought things through, I probably have concluded it was indeed an earthquake. No biggie.

Hiya's,
4.7 rating on the news24 and net about 45mins after it hit

Well i hope no one got hurt, Hopefully it did'nt last long enough to do much damage/injuries

Gotta dash

Ciao

Def

I had just logged off and gone to bed, when the tremor hit. I thought to myself "Theres only three things that can do that, a lorry...but its too long in duration, an earthquake, or hydrogen bombs, I'm thinking its and earthquake because I haven't been turned to radioactive dust yet" lol. Measured 5.2 on the scale, and the epicenter was about 15 miles outside Lincoln.

*phone rings* Hello? Oh hey! Its nobody! He says he found that funny! :p

So a 5.2 tremor hits the UK and everyone has to crap there pants and go screaming in to the night, meanwhile the press do a What If situation where the UK has been reduced to rubble and millions dead whoop-D-Do.

Bah, Humbug, tosh, rubbish, so what? We have on average 200 a year which don't bat anyones eye so why this one? The one in Wales was 5.3 20 years ago so why all the hype? Slow news day is your answer. :roll:

5.3 on the scale - here in Leicestershire it made my bookshelves sway and creak and it wobbled me on the sofa whilst I was playing my guitar. It also freaked my cats out... a lot!
last time I experienced an earthquake was not long after I met my other half - and I kid you not, we were in bed at the time, any banging of the walls was nothing to do with us :oops:
hehe it's one of those things where you ask yourself 'did that really just happen?' the UK being the placid place it is to live and all of that.

For the record it was a 5.2 only, source The British Geological Survey (BGS).

http://www.bgs.ac.uk/news/Market_Ras...7_2008_web.pdf

Didn't feel anything here across the sea. Then again, I was at a gig :)

And I'm not the best guide - I slept right through the 94 LA quake, a 6.7 :)