Earthquake?

took bbc news 19 mins to mention.
a poor effort

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=0.30%C2%B0W+++53.46%C2%B0N&ie=UTF8&ll=53.501117,-0.65918&spn=5.988068,14.172363&z=6&iwloc=addr

Real link this time

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7266136.stm

Wow, Caistor

Nothing ever happens in Lincolnshire, we'll never hear the end of this

BBC 5live were on the case quick...they had phone calls in from the public, just after the news at 1.00

it had never occurred to me that earthquakes happen in britain

i feel mad dumb

I live on a main road and there are a lot of lorries going by at night which shakes the house a bit. So even if there is a decent aftershock I won't know it really is one, grrr.

Well BIG HOOS you can tell by the excitement at a wee one that they're something of a novelty to us!

I was pretty surprised at how slow the BBC site was with this.

Still feel dizzy ;_;

xxxpost HOOS they don't happen often (or at least, ones that you can feel don't, there are lots of undetectable ones)

west midlands is the usual centre -- theere's a big fault line and small ones aren't uncommon

the unit my mum and dad's record player was on fell off the wall during one, and another left cracks all along the landing ceiling

in the first one mum thought a helicopter was landing on the roof; the second she thought a cow had jumped in the downstairs window -- when quizzed how on earth a cow jumping in the downstairs window was a vibration she felt she recognised, she gave NO CONVINCING ANSWER

This all seems like an excellent opportunity for SCIENCE

BBC News now saying it was 15 miles northeast of Lincoln

and 4.7

Take that West Midlands

I’m sure we’ll survive, it’ll be forgotten about by the evening after Gordon Burns has said his piece on it.

felt it here in lincolnshire, pretty cool. i was mixing down some music staring at the moon out the window, super weird!

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

bah all my LJ buddies are tucked up in bed sleeping dreamlessly as infants -- i have no one to compare it to except mark c who didn't notice it!

Nothing here. It's been extremely windy for about 3 days though.

On 5 Live they're saying it is more like 5.1 on the Richter scale.

'Biggest earthquake of my life'

we do like a drama don't we?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7266146.stm

This all seems like an excellent opportunity for SCIENCE

hurrah!

British Geological Centre now saying 5.3.

'I was lying in bed playing poker online.'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7266146.stm

Ken C?

This all seems like an excellent opportunity for SCIENCE

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41194000/jpg/_41194623_science300.jpg

The bugger woke me up. If the earth feels that it must shake, could it please do so at a reasonable time (like when I don't have to be up early for work the next morning)?

It started off as the same sound as our fish tank and my mid linked the two and I thought the fish tank was exploding.

I want to move to LA and feel the real thing now (but without any of the associated dangers obviously).

Epicentre in Lincolnshire? The Daily Mail will probably link it to Portuguese migrants and their loud parties.

Nothing here. It's been extremely windy for about 3 days though.

Something banging and rattling woke me up at the back of one this morning, but I can't claim it was earthquake-related. It certainly wasn't the wind though.

I thought I was having a heart attack. But I think that a lot.

I couldn't get to sleep last night so I wandered off to the sofa to see if I could sleep there. I looked at the clock and it was 00.53. I was just drifting off when I felt a kind of ripple and judder. I thought my wife must have come into the room and shaken the sofa to ask me what on earth I was doing there, but when I opened my eyes there was nobody there. I thought 'that's strange', then fell asleep. What drama.

My first memory is my mum waking me up as a child and going "hey there's an earthquake!" I'm sad I slept through this one - maybe you couldn't feel it in South London though?

Apparently people in East Dulwich felt it. I slept through it

I slept through it too.

I love the way that ppl don't realise that the Richter scale is logarithmic.

what a fucked up night, i came home to warrington from bristol to find half my town in a power cut. But this was about 7.30pm. power didn't come back up until 10.30 and then i get woken up to my house wobbling.

apparently my flatmate felt the earthquake in his room in holloway.

i felt nothing but then i was quite drunk and probably passed out.

our house have shitty foundation though - it shakes when a bus goes pass - apparently it just felt like a really big bus had been coming pass, for a long time.

'I was lying in bed playing poker online.'

lol

PATRICK - NOTTINGHAM

i was in bed masturbating at the time, I didn't know anything was going on for a while as the bed was rocking anyway, but then i realised i didn't have to move my hands in order to masturbate - it was so awesome i wish it'd happen again

I slept right through last night so I've no idea whether anything was felt in Fulham but going out this morning there seemed little evidence of a whole lotta shakin' havin' gone on.

Epicentre in Lincolnshire? The Daily Mail will probably link it to Portuguese migrants and their loud parties.

Sian, the voice of the Daily Mail (well, she just looks and sounds like one) on your BBC Breakfast sofa, expressed disbelief and no little fear that the earthquake would not be bound by borders, and could be felt even in Wales and Scotland.

I was asleep, but my girlfriend felt it, and somehow thought it was my doing.

It was VERY DRAMATIC here in Nottingham. First I thought the washing machine had gone onto spin (the magnets don't work, so it rumbles more heavily than it should), but the rumbling was coming from the wrong side of the house, so then I thought it was something to do with the heating system. I was on the ground floor and, as they say, The Whole House Shook. It was quite trippy really. Lasted about 10 seconds and set car alarms off outside. Checked on my partner two stories up and it had woken him. We both acted like complete drama queens for a minute or two (OH MY GOD I STILL FEEL SO SHAKY!), then I went back and made virtual cocoa for my Twitter pals.

I felt it slightly in south Oxfordshire. It wouldn't have been enough to wake me though. I thought I was probably imagining it or had managed to kick the bedsprings, but I couldn't recreate the side-to-side bed-wobble and it felt a bit like the thump of the last mini-earthquake, so I did wonder at the time if it'd been another.

I'm sure there was a small earthquake in Swindon in the 80s which took chunks off the college, a year or two before freak winds took the roof off it, in a God-really-does-hate-Swindon sort of way, but googling is not finding me any confirmation of either.

like Mark i felt the minimum effect. pretty much exactly the same sensation as the Dudley one in '02 - lying in bed watching in TV, hear this tapping sound from outside and slight shaking of the bed for about 5-10 seconds.

I was asleep, but my girlfriend felt it, and somehow thought it was my doing.

Surely you are required, as a man, to employ a godawful line about making the earth move for her (baby) in this instance. YOU'LL NEVER GET ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY.

West London, felt nuffin. Lame.

I** A**** APOLOGISES FOR ANY INCONVIENIANCE HE MAY HAVE CAUSED LAST NIGHT BY MAKING THE EARTH MOVE SO VIVIDLY ;o) lol. 1m ago

Worst Facebook update ever.

i thought it was a very strong wind!! looking back on it now, that makes no sense, everything wobbled for a good 20 seconds or so, including the lid of my laptop

I** A**** APOLOGISES FOR ANY INCONVIENIANCE HE MAY HAVE CAUSED LAST NIGHT BY MAKING THE EARTH MOVE SO VIVIDLY ;o) lol. 1m ago

we really need a cull

west london, felt the voib

oh what am i having like, muscle spams now > UH NO WAIT!!! > oh nm it's gone > back to watching shonky 90s detective movie ZERO EFFECT lol

up in grim north-east, I felt not a thing, though apparently some people in newcastle did. I feel a bit cheated.

pfft. i was watching star trek, that's as exciting as it was here

We had an unremarkable 4.6 early this morning... I woke up and went back to sleep

But what was funny is that a spokesperson from the USGS gave advice to 'stay in bed and put the pillow over your head'... which is honestly great advice for most everything

gonna happen at last

Southern California’s San Andreas and San Jacinto fault systems are at their highest levels of tectonic stress in 1,000 years in what scientists describe as a “critically loaded state”, according to a study published earlier this month.

“Our results show that stress levels on multiple fault segments are now at or above the highest values seen in the past millennium and that the region may be capable of a large through-going rupture involving both fault systems,” Liliane Burkhard, the lead author of the study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, said in a statement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se7hlVEE7KU

LA hasn't seen an 8+ since we've been recording down there, right? But those faults are fully capable of that I believe, though unlikely.

I remember years ago reading about a simulation that estimated 2k deaths and 200 billion in damage. Was kinda chilling just reading about the high level details. Link to these estimates: https://www.shakeout.org/california/scenario/

I suppose the 2008 sim was what made the news and what I remembered... but that seems so long ago.

Here's a disturbing video of how the coastal basin area would be pretty devastated with residual shaking:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2Ow0Yuv5co

I suppose this sim was done in 2008? Lord knows the $ valuation of damage would be higher. Hopefully not the estimated deaths.

And that was simulating a 7.75 quake with an epicenter up towards SLO

my oakland building is from 1927 so it's survived a few... and they did a soft story retrofit about four years ago
Hoping it'll hold up, but who knows!

That New Yorker article on The (PNW) Big One was so chilling I feel it got memory holed.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/how-to-stay-safe-when-the-big-one-comes

oh no I vividly absorbed every detail of that, trust me

Ha ha, me too! I meant that it was so frightening you'd almost think there would be some national/federal prep/messaging about it, but afaict, nope, not then, and of course not now ...

200 bill is nothing it’s only one-fourth of a ballroom

https://archive.ph/2026.06.11-151312/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one

Idk how rigorous inspections were/are for soft-story retrofits, though it does make me feel better that my landlord did one, as I live two floors above the soft story garage.

Relatedly, after Loma Prieta there was a massive program to reinforce URM (unreinforced masonry, e.g. regular brick and concrete brick) buildings. Some of it was done haphazardly, many companies that did the work shut down not long after the funding went away, and the City of Oakland lost a lot of building records. Basically, there are a lot of ???!?s in terms of whether buildings were reinforced properly/thoroughly.

I napped through Loma Prieta, but I was living in a one story house then. The shaking feels worse if you’re higher up.

good luck California

7.1 and 7.5 in Venezuela and 6.8 off the coast of Japan, in the same hour.

wow... there was a 5.6 in Northern California today, right where my cousin lives. She was away at work but her neighbor reported it was pretty stiff

Wonder if they're all connected

The news from Venezuela is horrendous - only 164 confirmed dead but whole villages are destroyed, some estimate there could be up to 100,000 dead

really awful... some of these images are insane

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/25/venezuela-earthquakes-destruction-visual-guide

It's miserable. I visited Venezuela two decades back courtesy of a friend there making some helpful arrangements due to her travel work; she's in Caracas and her and her household are thankfully fine but she's been very clear about how horrific it was and will continue to be.