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[cashbox1]

just after 1 this morning,there was a definite tremor in the birmingham area,i know it wasnt the result of a dodgy vindaloo,did anyone else feel anything or am i just imagining it ??

[xtinkerxbell]

i didnt feel anything but the wind was really bad up here today i thought my window was gonna come thru it was quite scary

[cashbox1]

tink it was a real wobbler- everything was shaking-it was quite scary for a minute

[xtinkerxbell]

i can imagine its weird u say that now theres loads of people talking about it and saying it was all over england i would have been really scared lol glad i didnt feel anything

[todd1970]

BBC NEWS | England | Earth tremor felt across England

Your right CB1 .. OMG !!!!

[g-man]

You didn't imagine it:

BBC NEWS | England | Earth tremor felt across England

[cashbox1]

i was sat here writing an email and all of a sudden my bloody monitor started shaking, then the whole house was rumbling,car and house alrams were going off all over the place- good job we dont get them often

[fistandantilus]

Yep was shaking like crazy here in Scarborough, just been on news, was a 4.7 magnitude epicentre in hull.

The magnitude scale is not linear, a 9.5 like the the one that caused the tsunami a few years back is many many times more powerful far more than twice as powerful the numbers suggest. which is scary cos even a 4.7 felt like the world was about to end lol

each whole number on the richtor scale represents a 10 fold increase in amplitude.

[todd1970]

Its Breaking News atm on BBC News 24..said it was felt across 6 counties.

I must say i would love to experience one myself..just hope no-one was hurt or too much damage done.

[xtinkerxbell]

something i wish not to happen to me id be really crappin it

[bladefan2]

in sheffield my wardrobe was shaking

i was half asleep and it woke me very quickly - fearing I ran downstairs

didn't know it was an earth tremor until my sister rang me 20 miles away saying put sky news on!

god - never been through a tremor before.

unbelivable

[todd1970]

something i wish not to happen to me id be really crappin it

FFS Tink you crap it from thunder..

Couldnt imagine what you would be like in an earth tremor.

[xtinkerxbell]

FFS Tink you crap it from thunder..

Couldnt imagine what you would be like in an earth tremor.

eh todd dont be cheeky or i'll need tae chib u....nah really id be screamin ma head off probs

[Daryl]

We had a good shaking up here in Nottinghamshire too - weird - because it wasn't just confined to a local area like they usually are in the UK - this has been felt by a lot of people spread through various counties so seems it was a biggy, even though it only measured 4.7 on the Richter Scale.

[fruitmachineemu]

london aswell

[Nudgeman]

Evenin' mornin' whatever.


At first I heard some distant bass. Then it felt like a bulldozer driving down the street. Then it felt like the bulldozer had driven into my hallway somehow osmotically passing through the front door. The cupboard above the monitor flapped open and shut a few times. It lasted about twenty seconds. Coventry not as bad as Brum by the sounds of it. No alarms set off. Don't think it waked the girlfriend.

At least I know I'm not going mad if there's a whole thread devoted to it, I'll check the news now.

[Sunistra]

yep

[beth]

FFS Tink you crap it from thunder..

Couldnt imagine what you would be like in an earth tremor.

OMG so i wasnt going off my head, jees i shit myself