Earthquake UK

[WhatGravitas]

Just wondering... nobody here lives in the UK? It's almost 24 hours ago... and still no thread?

Well, I was awake yesterday - and it was pretty weird. Nothing was damaged... but I was surprised that it was quite "gentle". Well, it was a pretty powerful force, but not like a sudden crash or explosion - no shockwave.

What a weird thing to experience. Has sent me into an almost Lovecraftian mood - we're living on an uncaring, inhuman ball of rumbling rock. Makes me feel strange.

And I found this GEOFON, which automatically records seismic activities. Never realized how... unstable our planet actually is. Known it? Yes. But that made me feel it.

Okay, with only not-quite-20 years of live experience, it was my first earthquake I've experienced awake... so it's probably normal, that I'm weirded out.

Cheers, LT.

 

[HeavenShallBurn]

Not from UK but I noticed the news, didn't think you got quakes very often around those parts. Probably just more of the ongoing resettling process as Britain adjusts to not having those glaciers covering it anymore.

 

[Dioltach]

I'm pretty sure I felt it in Leiden, on the west coast of the Netherlands. I woke up because I thought someone was running up and down the staircase. Or perhaps I'm just psychically linked to my motherland.

We had an earthquake in the Netherlands back in 1992, which was pretty scary. I'd had a big fight with my girlfriend, and was tossing and turning in my sleep. All of a sudden the house started shaking, and my first thought was, 'Wow, if I made the house shake just by turning over in bed, I really have to lose some weight!'

 

[nerfherder]

I live in Newcastle, I was awake, but I didn't notice it.

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

I, in traditional style, slept right through it. But it woke my wife up.

 

[nerfherder]

I, in traditional style, slept right through it. But it woke my wife up.

Are we still talking about the earthquake?

Yeah, I slept through the great storm of 87 when I lived in London. Walked out the front door the next morning to find half the trees in the street flattened!

 

[Dioltach]

I, in traditional style, slept right through it. But it woke my wife up.

During the War, my grandmother slept right through an airraid, even when a bomb landed on their neighbour's house.

 

[Zander]

I felt it. I was watching Underworld on telly at the time.

I lived for a while in Japan where quakes are common so I knew what it was when it happened. I also remember feeling the Folkestone earthquake a few years ago.

I was once in a pretty strong quake in Tokyo. Plaster came down from the ceiling and objects fell off our armrest-tables (I was in a lecture at the time). By comparison, the UK ones are pretty mild.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Are you sure it was an Earthquake and not a Graboid migration?