Earthquake?

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

in cambridge, which is closer to lincoln than a whole lot of places, it did not stir my whisky-soaked brain i did not feel it at all :/

Felt it in Ormskirk just north of Liverpool, picture started banging against the wall, then the whole room moved for about 2 seconds.

i woke up to this...
http://www.mce.k12tn.net/disasters/earthquake.jpg

Charlotte Green and Rob Wilkinson were enjoying a sexy cuddle in Gainsborough, Lincs.

The Sun's use of the term 'sexy' is alays cringeworthy for some reason.

Also, how much were they paid for this photo? Not enough is my estimate.

http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00443/snn2804mn384_443931a.jpg

Green pillowcases with red/orabge duvet cover!

The earth moved for me in North London. I am on the top floor of a building, I suppose that makes a difference.

i thought it was a very strong wind!!

That was all I could think of at the time too!

There was a couple on the telly last night and she had just given birth and he was just cutting the umbilical cord as the room started shaking. Can't have been fun trying to, say, conduct open heart surgery or something as the trolley goes sliding down the theatre or whatever.

Sting being interviewed in the NME in 1980: "I mean, why do the Sun always refer to me as Sexy Sting? I don't go up to people and say hello, I'm Sexy Sting."

Doesn't he?

No, he went up to people and said "hello, I'm Gorgeous Gordon"

"Controversial Colin"

i apparently woke up and told my girlfriend the bed was shaking (in stoke newington) and we had a conversation about it, but i remember none of it.

Yeah, felt that too. Like a quick snap of the fingers.

another little jolt

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