Earthquake!

Devastation

Utter devastation here, too. One of my patio chairs fell over 😀

Nothing down south but i have experienced a 6.5 in tokyo a few years ago – very odd sensation feeling my bed shake across the room (15th floor of a hotel)!

We slept outside last night waiting for the big one to happen, well, you can’t be too careful, I’m preparing for the extinct volcanoes in Scotland to erupt shortly, I’m putting polythene sheets over the garden to protect the plants from the ash.
Seriously, friends and relatives in Nottingham and Norfolk were shaken about, but the London Clay in Essex must have absorbed the shockwave.
The night before, our sensitive doggies were a complete pain all night because of the wind and rain, but on the night, we all slept soundly through the whole affair and didn’t notice a thing, mind you, it must have been an interesting experience at the top of some of those high rise flats in Nottingham.
I recall an earthquake centred on Charnwood Forest in the 50’s that woke me up and rattled the windows, quite a strange experience.
The only recent thing that affected us was the explosion at the oil depot in Hertfordshire over a year ago, that was wierd, I was convinced that something had crashed at Stansted and went straight on to the Teletext to find out what had happened, well, it ruined our trip to the Mosquito museum didn’t it.

I live in a safer part of the UK 😉 I was watching TV at the time……….and we had no tremor and the fist time I knew about it was 6pm news.

Victims were seen meandering around aimlessly, muttering “Faaackinell”.

Brilliant! That’s how we got through the Blitz! 😀

Please HELP?

LINCOLNSHIRE EARTHQUAKE APPEAL PLEASE GIVE GENEROUSLY

A major earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale hit Lincolnshire in the early hours today .Its epicentre was in the Market Rasen area. Victims were seen meandering around aimlessly, muttering “Faaackinell”.

The earthquake decimated the area causing approximately £30 worth of damage. Several priceless collections of historic tractors were damaged beyond repair and all three of the County’s compoooooters went down.

Three areas of historic scare crows were disturbed. Many locals were woken well before their press gang Transit mini buses arrived.

Lincs FM reported that hundreds of residents were confused and bewildered and were still trying to come to terms with the fact that something interesting had happened in Lincolnshire.

One strange effect of the earthquake was to startle thousands of toads into action – but most residents returned to their homes within minutes

One resident – Tracy Sharon Smith, a 15-year-old mother of 5 said, “It was such a shock, my little Chardonnay-Mercedes come running into my bedroom crying. My youngest two, Tyler-Morgan and Victoria-Storm slept through it all. I was still shaking when I was skinning up and watching Jeremey Kyle later in the morning.”

Another resident said, ‘I was in bed with my five daughters and their grandmother, as usual, and on feeling the vibrations I nudged my mum in the back and said ‘Has that disturbed the ducks, Duck?’

Apparently looting, muggings and car crime were unaffected and carried on as normal. The British Red Cross has so far managed to ship 4,000 crates of Sunny Delight to the area to help the stricken locals.

Rescue workers are still searching through the rubble and have found large quantities of personal belongings, including benefit books, jewellery from Elizabeth Duke at Argos and Bone China from Poundland.

HOW CAN YOU HELP?

This appeal is to raise money for food and clothing parcels for those unfortunate enough to be caught up in this disaster.

Clothing is most sought after – items most needed include:
Fila or Burberry baseball caps
Kappa tracksuit tops (his and hers)
Shell suits (female)
White sport socks
Wellington Boots & Barbour jackets
Rockport boots and any other items usually sold in Primark.
Food parcels may be harder to come by, but are needed all the same.

Required foodstuffs include:
Microwave meals, Tins of baked beans, Ice cream, Cans of Colt 45 or
Special Brew.
22p buys a biro for filling in the compensation forms and their giros.
£2 buys chips, crisps and blue fizzy drinks for a family of 9.
£5 buys B&H and a lighter to calm the nerves of those affected.

Breaking news***
Rescue workers found a girl in the rubble smothered in raspberry
alco-pop.
‘Where are you bleeding from?’ they asked, “Scunthorpe” said the girl,
wossit gotta do wiv you?” (And who put the —- in Scunthorpe anyway?)

Please don’t forward this to anyone living in Spalding/Boston area – oh,
sod it… they won’t be able to read it anyway.

Thanks DA for the fun side. LOL

Today’s news coverage of this ‘tremor’ has just become an embarrassment now.

All these terrified people being thrown from their beds…..how we ever got through the ‘blitz’ I’ll never know!

What’s that I hear? Is it the rumbling aftershock of fraudulent insurance claims? :rolleyes:

I felt me ass shake in the chair 😮

More info can be found on the BGS Earthquakes web site (it went down very quickly last night). There is an online questionaire for anyone who felt or for that matter didn’t feel it within the affected areas. The link is below.

http://www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/

I’m only 15 miles (ish) from the epicentre and was just dropping off to sleep when our house started shaking, was rather scary lol

my first thought was it was something from Waddington (we’re almost under the approach), I really did think, for a blip of a nano second, that it was a really low flying aircraft lol then I realised it was a tremor. I slept through the last one we had lol.

Everyone is talking about their pets acting up, our cat must be useless as he was asleep on the window sill and didn’t even blink :rolleyes: 😀

The earth moved in Norwich @ 01.03. Quite worrying as I was alone ! Keith.

I woke up and thought I was still half-dreaming.

Laying in bed, half awake, it felt like that strange moment when you ‘trip’ in bed, only over and over again. I still thought I was half in a dream when I heard house alarms and neighbours shouting. I lay still for a few seconds afterwards scared sh*tless. Being in my state of half-awakeness, I don’t remember hearing much during the shake.

Felt it in the Ding, South Lincolnshire just heading to bed when it happened

Wow! Did anybody else feel that?

My whole house shook at 00:58 GMT for about 10 seconds!

Could it have been an earthquake?

Probably a mild tremor!!

I’m working in Wantage at the moment and thought I heard a rumble about that time but there’s all sorts of assorted rumbles and squeaks throughout the night on this site so I thought nothing of it.

Felt it quite well thank you very much! Put Radio 5 on for Up All Night and it was all over it. It’s quite unnerving to actually HEAR it. Ironically, the BGS web site had crashed! The USGS web site was useful (http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2008nyae.php#news), as is the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre web site (http://www.emsc-csem.org/index.php?page=current&sub=detail&id=79520#). Scared the $h1t out of me! Didn’t do the cat much good either. Like many of the neighbours, lights were coming on and people looking out windows. Burglar alarms were going off all over the place and it certainly woke the birds up!

Chris

Edit – an aftershock was recorded by the BGS at about 04:00 AM according to their spokesman being interviewed on 5Live.

I couldn’t believe it when it happened, wondered what the hell was going on! 😮

I was doing some work for uni, when all of a sudden the door flung open and the computer screen was shaking, so I jumped up and the floor felt like it was moving!

To be honest, I freaked out, thought I was going mad or summat, cos you don’t imagine an earth tremor would happen here in the UK.

According the the British Geological Survey, they measured it at 5.3 on the richter scale…… apparently earthquakes of that magnitude only happen 15-20 years in the UK

Here in Stockport there was approximately 5 seconds of lateral shaking which was very apparent, the only sound was a light fitting next to me rattling.

Below is the USGS automatic incident report. I would agree with its general findings

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

Sky News is now trying to string this one as far as it will go from the sensible to the whacky.

That was a beauty, 4.7 on the Ricther scale:

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

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2275710.stm