Did the earth move for you ?

[Telic]

Wow, living in the UK, I've never felt an earthquake before, but have just been awoken to see the dressing room table beside the bed jumping around like it was possessed !

Apparently, the UK gets one earthquake a year capable of being felt, and one higher than 5 on the richter scale every 10 years or so - but I've never felt one before. This one was 4.7. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7266136.stm)

Seemed pretty damn cool to me :tongue: but I hope no one has suffered too much damage...

[DrScience]

Yeah. my fault, sorry. I ate Thai last night... really sorry.

[thorleader]

lol.
I live in California, and we have medium ones pretty often,
Pretty cool aren't they?

[Pandriel]

Yeah felt it as well, thought I was going mad as I was still half asleep until I saw the News this morning, I heard it was 5.4 but you always get slightly different reports after events like this.

[Ardani]

Yup.

Went to bed early because of the darn cold I'm down with, woke up to everything shaking, and after briefly entertaining the notion that it was an earthquake, told myself I was being stupid and that I probably had vertigo because of the cold (since I went through something remarkably similar while sick in the Netherlands once that turned out to be vertigo), then went back to sleep.

Definitely noticed the difference from the last 'quake, but I was still far enough from the epicentre that it didn't do any damage. Which is no complaint.

[Maticus]

What time was it exactly? Someone asked me around 1am if I'd felt the quake but I'd assumed he was talking about something that happened the previous night.

[rottentomato]

florida doesnt get earthquakes, and if we do, ill cry

[Kugan]

Oh no! My first ever earthquake, and I slept through it. Well, at least I now have prove when I say that I can sleep through anything.

[Telic]

Yup, it was reported as 4.7 initially, but news this morning is saying 5.3 !

I happened just before 1am UK time.
( Err, that should read "It happened..." :tongue: )

Closest thing I can compare it to was when I was in Saudi and a bomb went off that shook all the windows in the flat - you could almost see them flexing in the frames, and the bomb went off about 1 mile away ^^

[Wiglet]

Nah i didn't feel it. but it takes ALOT to wake me. :rolleyes:

[Elly]

Nope, didn't feel a thing but I'm quite a way from the centre of it. When I lived in the Indonesia I was in a couple but I don't think they were that big as quakes go as I just kinda wobbled a bit. It was more surreal than frightening.

[rgirty]

uk scientists say 5.3

us scientists come along and try to play the jedi mind trick and tell all the uk people it was 4.7

And we wonder why people don't exactly love americans. Being american why can't we just stay out of other people's business, maybe just a little bit.

[spadron]

I was pretty close (Sheffield) and slept right through it.

[Valas Azuviir]

Still think it was Austin Powers getting his mojo on. :tongue:

[piscene]

In Ohio we get an earthquake we can feel every few years. We had a small one last year...it shook the house a little bit, not enough to damage anything. It was hilarious because my daughters both hid under the diningroom table.

[elsegundo]

lol.
I live in California, and we have medium ones pretty often,
Pretty cool aren't they?

Ditto. im quite used to the occassional tremor.




as for the difference in ricter scale numbers, it happens in california too. the last big one we had in 1989 measured 7.7, 7.9, 8.1... or something. different numbers, probably because people base it on different things. it could be 7.7 in san francisco, but in watsonville (epicenter) it would be higher. same thing probably happened in UK. city shows 4.7, but closer to the epicenter, you'll see 5.1. who knows. doesnt really matter. was it a fun ride?

[Telic]

Well I thought it was cool - a really 'loud', visceral juddering; Like God was blowing a raspberry on yer belly.
(If such a mythical creature existed :tongue:)

[Caderbery]

I slept through it :)