Earthquake?

yep we felt it here in Hull, where are you?

I'm in Lincoln, it was pretty shaky here!

It lasted about 30 seconds here, power went off.

Nottingham. How was it for you? It wasn't too bad here, but I've never noticeably felt one before, so I'm still a bit freaked. Started like a car thrum, but became properly wall-shaky quite quickly.

we didn't lose power but it was pretty shaky

No power cut here, though, and the animals haven't gone crazy loud. I feel a bit dizzy, mind you.

feelable tremors in hackney -- i was looking at my computer desk thinking why is it shaking, then the whole building shook a bit and made noises

haha turned to ile for reliable info obv, hi foax long time no etc

Just hit us. Fucking terrifying. I thought the picture on my monitor was going funny, then realised it was shaking, then it built to a crescendo.

where are you lynskey?

Manchester btw

The power didn't stay off long, it just went off 2-3 times quickly. We're in an old house though, so the shaking might have mesed with the electrics or soemthing.

bbc says "reports of tremor felt in west midlands area, more soon"

manchester building shake craziness. wow so was this north only?

myspace bulletins section has just exploded into life with a mix of hysteria excitement and apocalyptic panic.

now on news24

yo
leicester big quakin

north only if north includes hackney pisces

ah. gotcha. is that better or worse i wonder.

Yes, woke me up in North Yorks.

the wonders of blogging..sorted by date on Google Blog Search
http://tinyurl.com/3yzblh

bloggers report the following locations re: experiencing the earthquake...

Derby
Rotherham
Lancashire
Oxford
Norwich
Manchester
Lincolnshire
Coventry
Nottingham
Bedfordshire
Leamington
Market Harborough

is hackney furthest south on that list? it was negligeable here but enough to get me back on ilx!

Nooo! I wanted to feel an earthquake! I was hanging up my clothes at that time I think, but didn't notice anything. Nearest I've come was being woken up by that fuel dump exploding in Hemel Hempstead a couple of years ago.

Mark, I first heard about it on my AFC Wimbledon forum so it's likely it made it further south.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2275158.stm

checked again...No mentions that i can see of London...Nottingham mentioned alot

4.8

Oh arse, I'm thick, someone pointed me to an old story. Sorry.

BBC 5 live..4.7 on the richter scale

35 miles south of kingston-upon-hull according to yank expert

being in a block of flats in manchester, that was a bit spooky!
the lights wobbled and the lamp stand was all over. :(

yank expert sez some reports even in London ...expect aftershocks

cool!

35 miles south of Hull..that would be somewhere in Lincolnshire? as the centre

i am way ahead of yank expert

"35 miles south of kingston-upon-hull"

This must be bloody close to Lincoln then

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

where is this?

off the coast of chile, 6.5

I am on the 10th floor and there was one big sway in the middle where I got my phone and considered going outside.

I like how aftershocks are called replicas. It feels so sci-fi.

i feel like i've been feeling these often since the July 5 one in mojave desert. and sure enough they've been constant, according to:

https://earthquaketrack.com/us-ca-redlands/recent

colton is like the next town over. and in the last four days there've been 4 between 3.1 and 3.6. they feel very innocuous but the thought of a big one near me freaks me the **ck out. and i've done no preparedness yet.

holy shit @ being up so high!

the new yorker pieces about the pnw big one got me really scared, but not scared straight, still haven't done anything for preparedness. the one thing that irked me about the pieces is that they more of less completely ignored british columbia. like let me explain the possible ramifications of this huge natural disaster that is looming but let's ignore that other country right there that will be massively affected. american exceptionalism is something else.

xpost with the small ones we play the game of trying to guess the magnitude. My spouse isn't sensitive to them at all and thinks I am typing too hard and shaking the sofa or something.

I heard someone in the elevator during the peak and kind of felt bad for them.

the new yorker is not a magazine with a reputation for an international outlook xp

xp. oof, i would not like that

I just guessed a 6.7 (per my above game). I am still awaiting on confirmation. I think I was super close.

is your residence/place of work well proofed?

yeah, almost all buildings here (in santiago) are. I was in one above an 8 a couple of years ago. We almost went outside.

I can usually feel them start, but this one was sudden. Or maybe because I was walking around making food that I didn't feel it. My spouse was on a telecom and didn't even notice until 10 seconds in.

Big one in the middle of nowhere (Tonopah) in Nevada 30 minutes ago. 6.4 preliminary. I'm 100+ miles away and it was a bit scary.

yes! we’re in Sacramento & it woke us up. No shaking that i saw but in my halfasleep daze i definitely heard rattling sounds

i've heard from ppl in Fresno that it startled them too.

An #earthquake swarm has kicked off southwest of the #SaltonSea today, producing 240 earthquakes as of 8pm Pacific. The largest earlier this evening was M4.9.
So what does this mean? We’ve put together some scenarios to explain what could happen next. https://t.co/wMzKa8FKQM pic.twitter.com/ow9r7J5FH4

— USGS Earthquakes (@USGS_Quakes) October 1, 2020

(thread)

not obvious from that thread but that's the salton sea is right on the san andreas fault iiuc.

What shall become of Slab City?!

Trevor's gonna love this!

7.0 in Antartica

if a tsunami wave hits only uninhabited shores, does it exist?

5.1 near Truckee, CA (north of Tahoe/Reno), apparently felt in Reno and San Fran based on tweets.

8.2 in Alaska. Possible tsunami hazard.

USGS now has the earthquake near Alaska as an 8.2! pic.twitter.com/HefBvKmHKM

— Steve Lookner (@lookner) July 29, 2021

A sixer! Strongest quake aus has had since 97. Boy howdy I felt that one - I was yelling at everyone to run outside. No one did, so my family are fucked if we have a real disaster lol sheesh.

apparently outside is a bad idea? - falling trees, powerlines, buildings etc.
doorway in a loadbearing wall or possibly under a table is the go… is what i gather. i think? - i quiz california-born mr veg about this all the time & he just shrugs like its nbd

Yeah you don’t run outside *during* an earthquake. You are also not supposed to go in door frames any more. General idea is protect your head and get away from windows.

I just stood uselessly in the living room flailing my arms yelling "get outside!" but the kids were still in bed asleep upstairs. I should have ducked under the dining table but I was thinking about the kids uptairs.

The whole house sounded like a herd of teenagers was running laps heavily all over the upstairs floors - shuddering and creaking and everything was juddering heavily. No cracks or popped doors or broken glass so I guess it held up ok.

Bay Area folx: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc73799091/tellus

It wasn't big, but it felt like it lasted 5-10 seconds. Called the 'rents to make sure it wasn't just a truck driving by, and they actually said that it lasted a lot less time even though they're closer to the epicenter.

Bay Area folx: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc73799091/tellus

It wasn't big, but it felt like it lasted 5-10 seconds. Called the 'rents to make sure it wasn't just a truck driving by, and they actually said that it lasted a lot less time even though they're closer to the epicenter.

2 people are dead, 11 injured after 6.4 magnitude earthquake strikes Northern California (near Eureka)

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/20/us/humboldt-county-california-earthquake/index.html

that's where my family is, where I'm from.. hard to get a hold of them this morning. They're fine but shaken up

But they have earthquakes there all the time, that's probably the most seismically active spot in the lower 48

yeah the power was out for like 75% of Humboldt County this morning, one bridge is down. did not realize there were fatalities though. it was a solid shake from what ppl told me, a good 30 seconds in Trinidad

HUMBOLDT EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE: Residents in Fortuna, CA are waking up to scenes of broken storefronts and damaged merchandise follow Tuesday morning’s 6.4 magnitude #earthquake. pic.twitter.com/utA97IUUiJ

— Austin Castro (@AustinCastroTV) December 20, 2022

7.4 near Taiwan, possible tsunami alert for the U.S. west coast.

Yes, we experienced it! Mt wife and I are in Taiwan right now, visiting her sister. We were in bed but already awake when the building started swaying! It is a modern block and we are on the 11th floor of 13. Nothing broken, just a few things moved around on shelves. Weirdly, yesterday we went up Taipei 101 and saw the damper (essentially a giant pendulum) which stops that building - tallest in the world until Burj Khalifa surpassed it) from swaying too much.
Had we been in the Taroko National Park today instead of Sunday/Monday it could've been very different...lots of rock falls there and people trapped in their cars.

12 confirmed fatalities; they are still looking for 18 missing people. The roads in Taroko National Park are pretty treacherous at the best of times: we saw many signs warning people to keep moving on a/c of rock falls and roads and trails which were now impassable because of either erosion, rockfalls or a combination of the two. Still freaks me out that we could've been trapped there had our itinerary for this trip had been different.

New York?

damn my whole house was shaking!!

i thought all the record shelves in my bedroom were gonna come down.

4.8 magnitude ... pretty impressive

Yeah that was something (Brooklyn) Only the third one of my life

i felt a tremor around 6.30pm
last night - turns out there was a 4.2 in Plumas County yesterday

(i’m in Sacramento)

7 minute drive from the epicenter to trump national in bedminster nj.

Dang, maybe there is something to these wild conspiracies about the New Madrid fault being in the center of two separate total solar eclipses.

https://i.imgur.com/VXBs9Mj.jpeg

Based on the location of the earthquake (magnitude 4.8, depth 5km), my initial guess is that this occurred along the Ramapo Fault line which runs through Northern NJ. Still waiting for more official information. pic.twitter.com/mR2vC4WxrB

— New York Metro Weather (@nymetrowx) April 5, 2024

i'm in midtown and felt nothing fwiw

Oh shit
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What’s that?
AFTERSHOCK