Bloody Hell, We Just Had an Earthquake

[jacey]

Is everyone all right?

Because when a stone house the density of ours shakes like that, someone else is in trouble.

00.57 a.m. a huge rattling shake and my whole office vibrated.

UK residents speak up, please.

Comments

[ferlonda.livejournal.com]

Dang! Are you guys okay??? I thought England didn't have earthquakes! Next you'll be telling me there's a volcano in the Pennines.

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

Yes, we're absolutely fine and no England doesn't have earthquakes (very often) which is why this was particularly remarkable even though to you folks on the Pacific Rim it was barely a flutter. See my second post with our quake stats.

I really don't ever remember being shaken like that. I recall feeling slight tremors, but this one literally rattled stuff on the office shelves and shook me in my chair.

[charlieallery.livejournal.com]

Quake? Huh? Um, no, fast asleep thanks. :)Presumably it didn't have an impact this far south. Though if I'd heard any kind of low rumble, even at that time of night, I'd have put it down to low-flying helicopters, which are the local disturbance, with Westlands being in the centre of the town. In fact there was one such last night as I was giving the cat his last medicine at about 11.45pm so I probably wouldn't even have woken up.

[julesjones]

One of the problems with routinely having hypnopompic hallucinations is that sometimes you don't notice when you wake with a thump that the bed really *did* move this time...

[maeve-the-red.livejournal.com]

Nope. Slept right through it. Snoring wakes me, but earthquakes? Totally oblivious.

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

With the epicentre in Market Rasen, you were probably a bit far away for more than a bit of an earth wibble.

[bluehairsue.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, the earthquake. It woke me up. An I thought "That was an earthquake. Nah, probably just a cat getting off the bed." It didn't actually feel as big as the earthquake I was in in Cumbria in 1980-something. (I was awake, more or less, for that one though.) So having recently had a discussion with Rory (who is currently re-reading Mary Renault) about earthquakes being caused by the stamping of the Great Earth Bull of Poseidon, I now have this picture of *our* earthquake being caused by the Great Earth Cat of Whoever-has-big-cats getting off the bed...

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

Brian's first thought was: had he done something majorly wrong on the building project because it sounded as though something heavy and structural had slipped. It had, but the earth's not our barn's. Whew!