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Anyone else feel the earthquake just before 1 am?

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

It was quite pronounced here - the whole house shook for about three seconds.

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About 1.5 - 2 seconds here - we have a railway just beyond our garden so I didn't realise it had been a tremor!

No doubt tomorrow the Govt. will try and sneak something out while the media go into overdrive on the tremor!

Anyone looked to see if Sizewell is still there?

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Stockport and Cumbria! Wow. I don't know whether that's a large expanse in earthquake terms but it impressed little ol' me. There can't be many other natural events that Ernest and Peter have experiened simultaneously in their homes (although I guess they're exerting a gravitational pull on one another.... )

Last one I felt was in 2002 (in Reading). That was also like a train, but I knew it wasn't, because I'd just moved to a place which wasn't near a railway for the first time. So I suppose I could have dismissed previous quakes as trains.

I think we've got it fairly good in natural "disaster" terms in the UK. No volcanoes, the odd mini-quake, and the very occasional tornado and big storm/winds. Just enough to be exciting but not usually any serious destruction (except for things like the three pine trees which blew down here in October '87 and luckily missed the house ). Earthquakes and hurricanes must be one of the most prominent downsides to living in the States (at least some parts of it).

It does stop us getting complacent I suppose; despite all our scientific and technological advances it shows us just how helpless we still are when Mother Nature throws a wobbly. She certainly likes to remind us who's boss from time to time.

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Felt it in Shropshire. I suspect that the epicentre was somewhere near here, it has been in the past.

Felt mild shaking down in the South here like the bed slightly rocking.

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I thought it was Eileen getting frisky - again!

....and it's not even my birthday.

Best wishes all,
Dave.

Never noticed it here in Stoke. Mind you I may have mistaken it for some boy racer with a loud exhaust going down the road.

I thought my wife was dreaming and bashing her bedside cupboard or something at first. That or I was just dreaming it in a half awake state.

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Caused by a weakening of the earth's crust in the UK due to all the holes they've been boring for speed camera poles apparently...

I suspect that the feel of the quake would depend on your local geology.
My house is high up on a rocky outcrop - not much of a cushioning effect, but I'm a long way from th centre. As I alluded to, the railway is cleaned of leaves at night, and makes the house vibrate. Not the usual time of year but the same level of vibration.

In Barrow, they appear to have had it worse, and Blackpool!
The epicentre was in Leicestershire, near Market Rasen, and measured 5.3 on the Richter scale.

Does this mean house prices will fall because we are in an earthquake zone?
I'll ask for a council tax rebate!

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just thought i was being burgled, house shook a bit, figured someone was trying to force open the garden doors - stayed up for about an hour after in case they came back to try again

the quotes on bbc website make me laugh though

"thought I was going to be killed" was the best
followed by
"it was quite severe, my grandfather clock was rattling"

Yep, a very British earthquake. 5.3 on the richter scale and someones chimney falls into their garden, hardly the cataclysmic events seen in the far east and Mexico. Yet the media act like a crevace had opened up swallowing most of the Midlands

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There was some extremly dramatic reporting on it wasn't there?!

I bet the Climate Change brigade were rubbing their hands hoping to put this down to CO2 - a shame for them so many geoligists quoted in articles stating quakes happen all time - phew! for the rest of us

.... or even a crevice....or crevasse....or something.

Best wishes all,
Dave.

Yep I heard something like this on the news this morning. The reporter was trying to draw the expert into a climate debate.....No chance....

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Well it woke me up down here in Wiltshire... bloody nature!

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I bet the Government have put up a nice juicy funding bribe for any scientist that can "prove" the quake was somehow related to car exhaust emissions and that, unless we "do something", the UK will be reduced to a pile of rubble within 10 years.

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I didn't feel it down 'ere in Dorset.


I wonder what the maximum amount (physical or legal) of vibration allowed during operation or installation of a speed camera is?

RedSpeed devices have hard disks don't they?
They have maximum vibration allowances...

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Andrew.

haha, it'd be a good day if the quake had been strong enough to destroy a bunch of speed cameras whilst remaining weak enough to simply rattle grandfather clocks :p

I toss and turn so much in my bed I missed it. I missed the one in 1984 too. I was going to work on my motorbike and when I got there people told me there was an earthquake.

I felt a couple in California. Bit scary. Good job they make their homes flexible.

How come we use the expression as safe as houses anyway? Someone got that wrong.

We should come up witha new one, to suit modern times. I would say; "as safe as a stretch of road with a speed camera".

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