Earthquake in england..

[lew!]

Yeah, By manchester n stuff..
i felt it in bristol lool - well the bed did neway
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2008nyae.php

[Virgin Mary]

it was funny it's like being on a ride

[Jamesy]

I so hate norfolk. So dull. So very, very dull.

[Clowgon]

it was funny it's like being on a ride

Blimey some pepole are on early.

I slept right through it.:P

Not happy thou. As my Laptop and Ps3 is damaged.

[Jamesy]

Nothing has happened at all near mine.

But I bet the tabloids are going to go nuts with "end of the world" or "terror strikes britain" :P

[Mathew]

Haha, I was asleep, yet my Mom told me she woke up and the wardrobes were shaking.
"Like a ride.." haha!

[Jamesy]

:( Nothing happened in Sprowston.

[Charted]

Didn't feel anything. Maybe considering I'm the otherside of the country lol.

I heard it was a 4.7??

[The Undertaker]

i felt it in bristol lool
I felt it slightly in London :]

[Jamesy]

Earthquake hits much of England

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Moment quake hit
The biggest earthquake in the UK for nearly 25 years has shaken homes across large parts of England.

People in Newcastle, Yorkshire, London, Manchester, the Midlands and Norfolk and also parts of Wales, felt the tremor just before 0100 GMT.

A man suffered leg injuries when a chimney collapsed in South Yorkshire.

The British Geological Survey (BGS) said the epicentre of the 5.3 magnitude quake was near Market Rasen, Lincolnshire.

Bev Finnegan, who lives in the town, said: "I was terrified to be honest. The noise was really, really terrifying... it was so deep and rumbling.

"It felt like the roof was going to fall in. There were people coming out in their dressing gowns wondering what it was. It was quite an experience."


It's the third earthquake I have felt and by far the strongest
Adam Wilson
Cotgrave, Nottingham

'Biggest quake of my life'

A Lincolnshire police spokeswoman said the force had received dozens of calls from residents but there were no reports of anyone in the county being injured.

"There is slight structural damage, cracks and a couple of chimneys damaged. There's nothing serious at present.

"Mostly people were distressed by it so there were a large quantity of calls coming in."

Speaking from Gainsborough, Mike Thomas, chief fire officer for Lincolnshire, said crews had been called out to 50 incidents and one fire as a result of the quake.

Speaking on BBC News, Justin Cowell in Gainsborough, said: "It started as a massive shake.

"People had come out into the street. It seemed the whole town had woken up."

Tom Edwards, from Heckington, Lincolnshire, said he heard a noise like "an underground train and an enormous roar".

"I thought I was probably going to get killed."

Dr Brian Baptie of the BGS said: "An earthquake of this size, of magnitude five or thereabouts, will occur roughly every ten to 20 years in the UK," he said.

'Rare' quake

The BGS recorded an aftershock with a magnitude of 1.8 at about 0400 GMT.

The main 10-second quake, which struck at 0056 GMT at a depth of 15.4km (9.6 miles), was the biggest recorded example since one with a magnitude of 5.4 struck north Wales in 1984.


PREVIOUS QUAKES IN THE UK
April 2007 - Folkestone, Kent (magnitude 4.3)
December 2006 - Dumfries and Galloway (3.5)
September 2002 - Dudley, West Midlands (5.0)
October 2001 - Melton Mowbray (4.1)
September 2000 - Warwick (4.2)
April 1990 - Bishop's Castle, Shropshire (5.1)
July 1984 - Nefyn, north Wales (5.4)
June 1931 - in North Sea near Great Yarmouth (6.1)

Dr Baptie said: "The largest earthquake that we know about that has struck the UK was about 100km off the east coast of England on the Dogger Bank and it had a magnitude of 6.1.

"So we can get these kind of moderate to significant earthquakes of this size but they're relatively rare."

Thousands of people from across England contacted the BBC to described how their homes shook during the tremor.

Jemma Harrison, 22, in Bury, Greater Manchester, said: "It was really bad. I was fast asleep and woke up and the room was shaking and there was a loud bang and alarms were going off."

'Like a jelly mould'

Natasha Cavey, in Tipton in the West Midlands, said: "All my cupboard doors flew open and the whole house shook, it was unreal. I can't believe it."

David in Alrewas in Staffordshire said: "The birds were flying around like it was daylight.

"It was quite severe. I experienced the Dudley one and this was more severe.

"I went outside to see if the roof had collapsed. I could see the furniture in the room moving, it was like it was on a jelly mould."

David Somerset, 41, from Driffield near Beverley in East Yorkshire, said: "I have never felt one as strong as that one before. I was in my sitting room and the grandfather clock was rattling rather violently.


I thought somebody must have kicked the door in and everything continued to rattle inside the house
Lynn Crombie, BBC reporter

"It was very strong, I felt the whole room moving."

Philip Norton, a BBC reporter for Look North in Hull, said: "Everything started wobbling.

"The windows were rattling and the blinds were visibily moving. "It sounded like the roof was coming in."

BBC reporter Lynn Crombie in Norwich said she was "absolutely terrified" and thought somebody "had driven into the side of the house".

"Then I thought somebody must have kicked the door in and everything continued to rattle inside the house," she said.

Jamil Ali in Sheffield said: "I woke up and the first thing I thought was that there were a load of burglars in the house.

"The kids were screaming and so was my wife. It was that violent you actually moved yourself."

The West Midlands was hit by an earthquake in 2002 in the Dudley area that reached a magnitude of 5.0 and one measuring 4.3 hit Folkstone in Kent last year.

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

[Slowpoke]

Didn't feel anything. Maybe considering I'm the otherside of the country lol.

I heard it was a 4.7??

they said 5.3 on the richtor scale. i live in blackpool and my brother thought it was that ferry on the beach moving :S:D! cool expierence though i must admit :)!

[Jamesy]

How little I felt anything. There a cardboard tube standing vertical on the worktop, hasn't moved.

[cocaine]

i didnt feel a thing haha

[Jamesy]

oh good, I'm not alone

[Charted]

they said 5.3 on the richtor scale. i live in blackpool and my brother thought it was that ferry on the beach moving :S:D! cool expierence though i must admit :)!


Wow. 5.3.

Thats quite high.
Especially for England.

[Jamesy]

6.1 is the highest, of yarmouth. Heh, damn so close. Nearly got rid of it :P

[e5]

My mum felt in Leeds

[jesus]

I bloody felt it. It made the horriblest rumbling noise and I thought it was someone breaking in so I was genuinely frightened. :(

[e5]

I bloody felt it. It made the horriblest rumbling noise and I thought it was someone breaking in so I was genuinely frightened. :(
My aunty thought she was getting ram raided lol

[dannyisnotamazing]

Nothing has happened at all near mine.

But I bet the tabloids are going to go nuts with "end of the world" or "terror strikes britain" :P


:( Nothing happened in Sprowston.


How little I felt anything. There a cardboard tube standing vertical on the worktop, hasn't moved.


oh good, I'm not alone


6.1 is the highest, of yarmouth. Heh, damn so close. Nearly got rid of it :P

YOU ONLY NEED TO SAY IT ONCE.


I bloody felt it. It made the horriblest rumbling noise and I thought it was someone breaking in so I was genuinely frightened. :(

I didn't hear/feel anything and I live right besides you. :{.
Doesn't look like it's done that much damage though. ;p

[e5]

YOU ONLY NEED TO SAY IT ONCE.



I didn't hear/feel anything and I live right besides you. :{.
Doesn't look like it's done that much damage though. ;p
Watch your house collapse now or something

[jesus]

YOU ONLY NEED TO SAY IT ONCE.



I didn't hear/feel anything and I live right besides you. :{.
Doesn't look like it's done that much damage though. ;pMy aunt lives down the road and she felt nothing.

It did quiet a lot of damage in other places, chimneys were falling onto cars and stuff!

[cocaine]

i have no school cus it buggered up the electrics haha

[Dan2nd]

I didn't feel anything I don't know if anyone else did in my area lol..

[United.Road]

i felt it in leicester

[Nixt]

I was asleep and didn't feel a thing. Now I can say I've slept through an earthquake.

[Charlie]

I felt it, and the sound it made was scary, like a rumbling sound and stuff, was well weird. Really shook me ups! :P

[xBenxx]

I Felt it in cheltenham, gloucestershire. i nearly cryed! i thought it was a ghost moving my bed! i was on my pc then all of a sudden, bang, my table, and bed were moving.. i was shouting mum! mum!

[United.Road]

I Felt it in cheltenham, gloucestershire. i nearly cryed! i thought it was a ghost moving my bed! i was on my pc then all of a sudden, bang, my table, and bed were moving.. i was shouting mum! mum!
haaaaaahahahahhaha you was nearly crying over a earthquake? :D

[Swearwolf]

^^^^^lol pleke
i felt it in northamptonshire
i fell off the sofa :@

[Muniflex]

I felt it!
All the way in the canary islands!

Im sorry, that's a lie.:( lol

Anyone noticed that it seems England earthquakes are at night? lol

[le harry]

I Felt it in cheltenham, gloucestershire. i nearly cryed! i thought it was a ghost moving my bed! i was on my pc then all of a sudden, bang, my table, and bed were moving.. i was shouting mum! mum!

man up.

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[Elkaa]

I bloody felt it. It made the horriblest rumbling noise and I thought it was someone breaking in so I was genuinely frightened. :(

Same, except the most frightening thing for me was my broadband went down :(

[Swearwolf]

I was sat watching nightwatch aswell, about car crashes.. then im wobbled off the sofa!

[Jordy]

Slept through it as usual, and I was quite near the epicentre in Nottingham.

I'm yet to ever feel an Earthquake, the funniest comment I've heard about it from a friend on MSN

'thought we we're being robbed at first so went downstairs with the loft ladder pole in my hand'

[Muniflex]

Slept through it as usual, and I was quite near the epicentre in Nottingham.

I'm yet to ever feel an Earthquake, the funniest comment I've heard about it from a friend on MSN

'thought we we're being robbed at first so went downstairs with the loft ladder pole in my hand'


Don't wish to experience one, may end bad lol....

[Hecktix1]

Yeah, By manchester n stuff..
i felt it in bristol lool - well the bed did neway
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2008nyae.php

It wasn't "by manchester", it was in lincolnshire, and it rebounded to the otherside of the country.


Didn't feel anything. Maybe considering I'm the otherside of the country lol.

I heard it was a 4.7??

If you're talking about the other side of the country to him, then you should have had it harder.

It was 5.3 at the epicenter which is the strongest for 25 years

[Muniflex]

England is long overdue a major naturla disaster!

[Moh]

England is long overdue a major naturla disaster!
What major natural disasters have we had in the past?

[Jordy]

What major natural disasters have we had in the past?Flooding last July & droughts in 2003.

[GommeInc]

I was listening to Madonna - Wow when it struck... Weird, unexplainable feeling and sound, and that's just Madonna!

[xBenxx]

haaaaaahahahahhaha you was nearly crying over a earthquake? :D


man up.

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I Thought it was a ghost and i got a big fear of ghosts! plus i was in the dark..

[-:Undertaker:-]

It hit Liverpool aswell.

[Crazy Bartender]

I felt it all the way in Hackney, East London. I was sitting on the one sofa chair and it's against the radiator and it kept smashing against the radiator.

It was well weird..

[Hecktix1]

It hit Liverpool aswell.

it's quite astonishing how an earthquake can happen here, and then reach places like Liverpool, London & Bristol. Suppose that shows the severity.

[efq]

lol. I woke up when my fan fell on my head and cut my head opens.. just little cuts.
And I nearly got killed :( I went outside to get bike and closed backdoor and tiles slid of the roof and smashed the big cement path... 2 foot from hitting me...

[GommeInc]

lol. I woke up when my fan fell on my head and cut my head opens.. just little cuts.
And I nearly got killed :( I went outside to get bike and closed backdoor and tiles slid of the roof and smashed the big cement path... 2 foot from hitting me...
No... That was me, sorry :P

It went to Essex so it nearly crossed the whole country. Kent didn't get affected.

[Shoed]

Yeah, By manchester n stuff..
i felt it in bristol lool - well the bed did neway
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2008nyae.php

bristol didnt get the strongest point tho. Lincoln/Nottinghamshire did.

[Yum999]

Felt it all the way down here in DORSET too!

Only a few people at school did, so I guess we must of got the very least of it, considering the distance.

[leah]

Bloody Cornwall.

No Snow..
No Earthquake..

I Miss Out Of Everything. :(

[xxMATTGxx]

Yeah many people heard it around my area and I live in Manchester. I'm sure i read somewhere some people even felt it in Amsterdam

[Slowpoke]

People are still talking about it at my school and hoping for some aftershocks :D.

[alexxxxx]

lol. I live in nottingham. Quite fun haha.

[Yum999]

I'm sure i read somewhere some people even felt it in Amsterdam

Yeah, it was on BBC Breakfast on the morning of the hurricane. Incredible really.