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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2008 1:03:18 GMT
Just before 1am today (27th Feb, 08), I was doing my internet when my place started shaking. I could not believe it, and the water in my jug was also shaking. It lasted a few seconds. I've experienced earthquakes many times in Japan and the Philippines so I know exactly what it feels like. I'm still in a bit of a shock for it to occur in London.
I doubt there is mining or major digging right under my place and the SSL tunnels are a good distance away and it's definately not trains - I know because my lecture theatre is right above the District!
I know the UK is not on a major fault lines but there are many "inactive" faults which decide to wake up every now and then.
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Post by c5 on Feb 27, 2008 1:05:19 GMT
I live outside London about 50 miles.
I had the same. I got up to see what it was.
It may have been my neighbours washing machine as I have had that before.
On Sky News now!
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Post by Tomcakes on Feb 27, 2008 1:08:45 GMT
There was, apparently, something in Yorkshire, but I felt nothing in Edinburgh.
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Post by mrfs42 on Feb 27, 2008 1:33:18 GMT
There wasn't anything out here in the West - though we have had tremors in the past that have cracked various houses. I might have been asleep too.  |
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Post by Rich32 on Feb 27, 2008 1:37:05 GMT
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Post by Ben on Feb 27, 2008 1:42:06 GMT
Yeah, woke us alll up here in Loughborough! 4.7 apparently.
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Post by metman on Feb 27, 2008 1:59:17 GMT
Didn't feel it! I would have been walking home. Just got off the train at Northwood! I've felt them before-I was on the loo that last time it happened!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2008 3:20:29 GMT
yep, same hear did not feel it
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2008 4:03:33 GMT
Ha, my partner thought I'd still been dreaming when I yelled for him shortly after 1am saying that I'd had a bad dream and then felt the ground shake...! We had a power cut at the same time, apparently.
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Post by SE13 on Feb 27, 2008 5:36:47 GMT
The epicentre was close to Market Rasen in Lincolnshire, which is about 15 miles North of me.
I felt it, it woke me up. It was as if a tank had gone past outside. I leapt out of my bed and raced to the window to see what was going on. The floor shook, the clock and plate hanging on the wall were shaking, and if I'm honest, I was quite shaken by the event.
I can't see any damage from where I am, but the radio is reporting chimney stacks down in a variety of areas around Lincolnshire, Gainsborough in particular.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2008 7:21:21 GMT
Nothing here, mind you - I was asleep.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2008 7:57:22 GMT
I managed to not notice anything even being up and not having the tv on. Remember one when i was in primary school tho!
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Post by Tomcakes on Feb 27, 2008 8:25:02 GMT
Gainsborough in particular. Just so long as they avoid the Market Shop and fall on the chavs, I don't mind  . Nah, speaking to a few people from the 'borough, it was apparently particularly bad there. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2008 8:40:06 GMT
Peterborough shook last night. The wife was very brave and sent me downstairs to check everything out.
Funny thing was I thought "must be an earthquake" and went back to sleep (after doing what I was told) as if an earthquake is the most common thing in Peterborough.
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Post by tubeprune on Feb 27, 2008 8:43:02 GMT
The epicentre was close to Market Rasen in Lincolnshire, which is about 15 miles North of me. I felt it, it woke me up. It was as if a tank had gone past outside. I leapt out of my bed and raced to the window to see what was going on. The floor shook, the clock and plate hanging on the wall were shaking, and if I'm honest, I was quite shaken by the event. You should always stand in a doorway during an earthquake. NEVER go outside or near a window. I have been in quite a few (Phillipines, Taiwan, California) and now it's automatic for me. Here in Loughborough it was quite alarming. I was out of bed and in the bedroom doorway double-quick. My other half (not understanding) got a bit cross. |
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Post by compsci on Feb 27, 2008 9:07:25 GMT
I felt nothing in Cambridge, but that is probably explained by the suspension effect of most of the town almost floating on the marshy ground.
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Post by Ben on Feb 27, 2008 10:12:32 GMT
tubeprune: One wonders what it felt like at the top of 'towers'!
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Post by Chris M on Feb 27, 2008 11:15:11 GMT
I didn't feel anything here, at all.
A few people in know in Swansea said things rattled there though.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2008 12:45:27 GMT
I was up watching 24 season 2 and having a few glasses of wine. As i had the av reciever on including the sub you could've thought it was the soundtrack! However the great western mainline backs onto my flat and i thought the rumbling was a heavily laden frieght train and thought nothing much of it
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Post by SE13 on Feb 27, 2008 18:04:02 GMT
Gainsborough in particular. Just so long as they avoid the Market Shop and fall on the chavs, I don't mind . Nah, speaking to a few people from the 'borough, it was apparently particularly bad there. I've been out there working today, and quite a few properties were affected. Trent Street, Trinity Street, and the little rat-runs between Trinity Street and Bridge Street all seemed to have damaged houses, as did Tower Street, and the area close to the football ground. I didn't have the faintest idea what was going on, I just presumed some heavy machinery was being driven down the road....... |
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Post by Tomcakes on Feb 27, 2008 18:10:39 GMT
Just so long as they avoid the Market Shop and fall on the chavs, I don't mind . Nah, speaking to a few people from the 'borough, it was apparently particularly bad there. I've been out there working today, and quite a few properties were affected. Trent Street, Trinity Street, and the little rat-runs between Trinity Street and Bridge Street all seemed to have damaged houses, as did Tower Street, and the area close to the football ground. Shame Park Springs wasn't flattened!! |
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Post by tubeprune on Feb 27, 2008 18:55:32 GMT
tubeprune: One wonders what it felt like at the top of 'towers'! I've never been in one higher than the 5th floor. Once, in Taipei, we had an earthquake during the lunch hour. Three of my colleagues were coming up in the lift at the time and I could hear it banging from side to side in the shaft as it came up. They arrived in the office looking a little pale to say the least  |
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Post by SE13 on Feb 27, 2008 19:04:47 GMT
Shame Park Springs wasn't flattened!! It seemed unaffected completely up there! It was mainly the older buildings in the Town Centre and surrounding. Sort of Ramper Road, Lea Road as the edge of the affected up as far as Northolme/Spital Hill area. If you sort of put a circle around Tesco for a few hundred yards, but not up Thorndyke Way, that was the general area of where the worst was. The Fire Brigade attended 67 (I think) properties. Just as a matter of interest, the last time an earthquake happened in a similar place was in the 1100's, and Lincoln Cathedral was badly destroyed! |
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Post by Chris W on Feb 27, 2008 20:25:49 GMT
Just as a matter of interest, the last time an earthquake happened in a similar place was in the 1100's, and Lincoln Cathedral was badly destroyed! Badly destroyed....  how much worse can things get than just plain & simple destroyed ;D ;D ;D |
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Post by Dmitri on Feb 27, 2008 20:49:20 GMT
how much worse can things get than just plain & simple destroyed Destroyed with exceptional cruelty... |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2008 20:49:43 GMT
I was awake at 01.00 this morning... never felt anything...
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Post by Colin on Feb 27, 2008 22:53:29 GMT
I was watching the news this morning in the mess room at Upminster (the only spare to not cop anything first thing!  ;D ;D) - I just had to laugh to myself at all the claims of who felt it..........Cornwall......Holland.......etc..... Yeah, whatever  |
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Post by c5 on Feb 28, 2008 4:30:31 GMT
I was watching the news this morning in the mess room at Upminster (the only spare to not cop anything first thing! ;D ;D) - I just had to laugh to myself at all the claims of who felt it..........Cornwall......Holland.......etc..... Yeah, whatever On News 24 about 11am they showed a photo of a house in Kent (or somewhere not near) that had a newly fitted dago rail fall down. They were blaming the 'quake and the presenters were lapping it up! Hmmmmm.......  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2008 13:15:31 GMT
I was watching the news this morning in the mess room at Upminster (the only spare to not cop anything first thing! :P ;D ;D) - I just had to laugh to myself at all the claims of who felt it..........Cornwall......Holland.......etc..... Yeah, whatever ::) ::) Tremors were registered in the Torquay area, apparently. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2008 14:38:28 GMT
i didnt feel nothing and i was up with the little one......
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;D ;D) - I just had to laugh to myself at all the claims of who felt it..........Cornwall......Holland.......etc.....
