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Post by Graham on Feb 27, 2008 7:56:39 GMT
How did the earthquake effect everyone living in different part of the country, we are in Nottinghamshire and woke up about 1.00am with the room shaking, lots of rattling of pots etc and a low rumbling noise, I straight away thought that it was an earth tremor, it lasted about 10 seconds and was quite disturbing, it says on the news this morning it was 5.2 on the Richter scale which apparently is the worse for 25 years in this country.
Graham
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Post by playallday on Feb 27, 2008 8:15:39 GMT
How scary for you! I saw it on the news last night when I got home after a few days in sunny, YES..sunny! Cornwall, but it didn't reach us here in Devon. Hope anyone affected is OK.
Jean
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Post by wendy on Feb 27, 2008 9:02:51 GMT
I heard rather than felt everything rattling. When asked 'what's that noise?' John replied 'the wind' and this morning he can't remember it at all! ;D
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Post by viv on Feb 27, 2008 9:13:26 GMT
We heard nothing but the shaking woke us up. It lasted long enough for me to gather my wits and put my hand on the bed to steady it, silly!!! I then thought Terry had got up and was being heavy footed. He thought it was me.
I did get up and checked the internet for news and of course it was on BB news within a few mintes.
I had felt the one in 1984 when I was at work.
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Post by romingtim on Feb 27, 2008 17:59:02 GMT
Hi Graham,
Here it Norwich it gave us a good rattling too!
I had only got back from a couple of days at Fire Service College and was dead beat so I could have done without being rudely awoken by the whole bungalow shaking as though we were about to travel downwards!!
Gave us both quite a shock and took ages before I could get back to sleep too!!
Tim
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Post by wendy on Feb 27, 2008 19:07:47 GMT
I did get up and checked the internet for news and of course it was on BB news within a few mintes. I can't believe that you were checking the internet at 1 o'clock in the morning! |
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Post by Graham on Feb 27, 2008 19:18:29 GMT
I did get up and checked the internet for news and of course it was on BB news within a few mintes. I can't believe that you were checking the internet at 1 o'clock in the morning! Our son did the same, he couldn't sleep so he looked on the internet from the comfort of his bed on his mobile phone and the British Geological Survey website was down, it had obviously crashed because of all the people accessing it. So you weren't on your own Viv. Graham |
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Post by pendel on Feb 27, 2008 23:16:28 GMT
I didnt realise it was an earthquake. We live in a park home and if Derek is heavy footed going to the loo, it can be a bit wobbly. I was in bed reading and proberly a bit sleepy so I was quite shocked when I was told by my son today that the earthquake had woken him up. Derek said that Barney(the cat) went a bit scatty but he didnt realise what it was. Too involved in his game on the p.c. The last one we had in Colchester was about 6 years ago and I was on the p.c. and everything went wobbly. I just thought I had spent too much time on the p.c. and needed to go to bed. Again, I didnt realise what it was till I was told the next day. They say ignorance is bliss.
Looking forward to the meet everybody? Penny& Derek
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Post by dancer on Feb 28, 2008 0:00:01 GMT
WE FELT IT HERE IN STOCKPORT, LASTED ABOUT 6 SECONDS, THOUGHT IT WAS GOING TO SHAKE THE HOUSE TO THE GROUND, FRIGHTENING.
LOOKING FORWARD TO MEETING YOU ALL IN MARCH.
STEVE & DENISE
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Post by viv on Feb 28, 2008 8:31:58 GMT
I did get up and checked the internet for news and of course it was on BB news within a few mintes. I can't believe that you were checking the internet at 1 o'clock in the morning! Thing is Wendy that I was WIDE awake as I had been asleep for about 2 hours. I also could not get back to sleep for ages and several of my friends said the same. I gather that a natural adrenalin kick can occur after events like this, so that is probably why. A similar thing happened after we heard the Buncefield explosion a couple of years ago and we could not sleep. Another funny thing is that I heard loads of squawking from the birds a few minutes after this quake. I wonder if we would have felt it in our little vans! |
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Post by jayjay on Feb 28, 2008 12:15:32 GMT
Yes, it woke me up here is South Cheshire! the whole bungalow was shaking, but I just thought it was a HGV lorry going past - we get several 'quakes' every day here and some have woke me up in the past at night - hgv's sneaking thru the housing estate when no-one is looking! We have a 7.5 ton limit 'except for access', which basically means 'take no notice then' as everyone can argue access.
I went back to sleep, but did think it must have been a very large HGV as it went on for a long time.
My sis was on nights, she said there was a 'whooshing' sound, and everything went very still, then the earth shook (Stoke-on-Trent). After it had passed, the birds started singing - in the middle of the night! She said they were singing before too, that's why the silence that preceded it seemed so intense - so birds must call out a warning, then sound the all-clear!
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Post by yamaha on Feb 28, 2008 15:05:56 GMT
Jayjay said "and everything went very still, then the earth shook" I used to get that feeling when I was younger, too - but that WAS a few years ago !!  Mike |
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Post by viv on Feb 28, 2008 17:30:24 GMT
Mike you are still young just a bit less young than a few years ago!
Interesting about the birds, we experienced similar when we watched the eclipse. I am convinced they sense these things. I certainly heard the all clear but not the warning.
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Post by lunnie on Feb 29, 2008 22:42:41 GMT
I was on the computer when I heard a loud rumble sound and the ceilings just rattled and vibrated and the doors shook, I couldnt think it was and as it ended my son phoned,yes the usual one David, it had shook his house in Derby he had felt it before me, he being closer to the epi centre. the plaster work cracked in his kitchen.
Today just found out that my DIL's mother's house suffered wall damaged under her c.h boiler it has crumbled. her mum is in hospital so no one has been in the house until today.
Just glad that I was not upstairs as I think it would have moved the bed and that would have been frightening.
Joan
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Post by Graham on Mar 1, 2008 7:44:05 GMT
Since the earthquake a tile on our kitchen wall has fallen off, I say it was the earthquake but Pauline reckons its my usual DIY bodge job. ;D
Graham
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Post by sunshine on Mar 6, 2008 21:48:37 GMT
I am just outside Derby and the house apparently shook but I continued to sleep.
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Post by viv on Mar 6, 2008 22:09:13 GMT
Have you only just woken up then Sunshine??
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