EARTHQUAKRE!!!!

m0ds · Wed 27/02/2008 01:01:00

AWESOME!!!!!!! UK! EARTHQUAKE! SERIOUSLY!!!!

lemmy101 · Wed 27/02/2008 01:04:47

Fuck that was really weird! :o

m0ds · Wed 27/02/2008 01:05:10

CLOVERFIELD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sweet, my first earthquake experience!1

lemmy101 · Wed 27/02/2008 01:09:59

Me too! We're in the North East, you're in Oxford. Wow that's really spooky!

I didn't even think we could get earthquakes! :o

Domino · Wed 27/02/2008 01:10:59

A few years back i was awakened because of an Earthquake tremor. Scared the crap out of me. It was early in the morning when it hit and i felt my whole bedroom shaking.

It wasn't very strong, but very noticeable.

m0ds · Wed 27/02/2008 01:11:45

Occasionally, and they have been felt throughout the country in recent years too. They're getting more intense! There's probably a secret volcano that requires the expertise of Tommy Lee Jones lying under our country somewhere

I was speaking to someone on MSN in Staffs who said "OMG EARTCAKE!" and moments later my bedroom and keeyboard shook a little. SWEEEET

gb mother nature

monkey0506 · Wed 27/02/2008 02:48:17

Quote from: m0ds on Wed 27/02/2008 01:11:45gb mother nature

GunBound mother nature?

GoodBye mother nature?

Goosnargh Blasterweef mother nature?

Interesting about Earthcakes in the Uck. Wonder if this means the world really is going to be ripped in half like everyone's been telling me.

Layabout · Wed 27/02/2008 03:48:23

Yeah felt it here too. quite strong, the whole room was shaking and i like totally freaked out. First earthquake for me too.

my desk moved like 5 inches. probably due to me holding on to it and freaking out.

LGM · Wed 27/02/2008 05:21:51

Someone divided by zero.

vict0r · Wed 27/02/2008 07:36:04

Quote from: LGM on Wed 27/02/2008 05:21:51
Someone divided by zero.

*facepalm*

But when was this? I didn't feel it

Stupot · Wed 27/02/2008 08:31:02

Was just before 1am GMT.
I didn't feel it, too far south, but an old MSN buddy I've spoken to about 3 times since Dreamcast Days suddenly leaves me a message saying "DID YOU FEEL THE QUAKE!!" and I assumed it had something to do with the Quake games.

I can't get my head around how we can get quakes in the UK. We are bang in the middle of a tectonic plate... surely that's the safest possible place to be. Maybe someone could enlighten me.

Meowster · Wed 27/02/2008 09:09:27

Damnit, no quake for me. I feel cheated

Stupid lovely Brighton.

DazJ · Wed 27/02/2008 09:24:46

I'm up North, West Yorkshire, was fast asleep, didn't hear or feel a thing, yet a little thing like a pin dropping usually wakes me up!

EldKatt · Wed 27/02/2008 09:43:08

Quote from: Stupot on Wed 27/02/2008 08:31:02
I can't get my head around how we can get quakes in the UK. We are bang in the middle of a tectonic plate... surely that's the safest possible place to be. Maybe someone could enlighten me.

Well... it is a comparatively safe place to be, but not completely earthquake-free. The notion that we all learn in school that earthquakes are caused by tectonic plates moving around and colliding and stuff is a very simplified one. I'm no geologist, so I can't go too far beyond that, but the Earth's crust is a complex thing, and stress builds up here and there all the time. Given enough stress, stuff will move. There will naturally be a lot more going on around a plate boundary, but it's not like everything else (the plates themselves) is rock solid and doesn't move. Wikipedia can tell you more.

BOYD1981 · Wed 27/02/2008 09:48:59

i felt it all the way here in Witham in Essex, i woke up after 1 and felt like i was moving about but just disregarded it as me either waking up moving about because of a dream, or a really big low flying plane even though i couldn't hear one. it actually felt more like somebody had slammed the front door but lasted a bit longer.

DazJ · Wed 27/02/2008 10:18:11

We had one about 5 years ago, it happened around 1AM GMT too I believe.

OneDollar · Wed 27/02/2008 13:20:26

I can't believe I didn't feel it, I was awake and up and didn't notice a thing, then my housemate texted me from his room asking why the walls were shaking. I did feel the one about five years ago though.

Does anyone know where was it centred?

m0ds · Wed 27/02/2008 13:22:35

Near Lincoln!

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

ManicMatt · Wed 27/02/2008 18:58:26

It was 1am, and I was fast alsleep. Then a rumble woke me up, and my heart raced as the room was shaking! I heard my tv that's on a swivel move about, and worried more so about my flatscreen LCD falling over. It calmed down and I heard a light switch being flicked. My mum had woke up from it. She said her lamp fell over and woke her up, but my dad slept through the whole thing, the heavy sleeper he is!

So I don't know if that bbc news says this, and it probably does, but that was the biggest recorded earthquake in the uk since 1984. And it shit me up.

Pumaman · Wed 27/02/2008 20:51:50

Aw, I didn't feel anything either.

Still, the Buncefield explosion a couple of years ago was as good as an earthquake, so I think that'll have to do.