:confused: Did anyone else feel the earthquake that hit the UK at about 1:00 Wednesday morning?
I'm on the 6th floor of a highrise and it was quite freeky... quakes are quite rare in the UK!!
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:confused: Did anyone else feel the earthquake that hit the UK at about 1:00 Wednesday morning?
I'm on the 6th floor of a highrise and it was quite freeky... quakes are quite rare in the UK!!
I didn't feel it here in the US. Strange. Did it cause any damage anywhere?
Back when I was 9 years old or so I was sitting on the 3rd or 4th floor of some building and felt a slight tremor. It turned out to be an earthquake from Wyoming, the next state up from us well over 100 miles away. Weird.
Yup, I felt it and I'm in Wolverhampton. I thought it was a truck coming past at first.
My mom is still convinced it was the devil rattling his chains and shaking her bed! - She must have told a big porky if she's thinking that!
hehe, details are coming in.. it was a 4.7 on the Richter scale, epicenter was about 50 miles away from me...
I thought somone had flown something into my building:cool:
Felt it really bad here (Stafford) spilt my damn tea, set everyones car alarms off and knocked a pile of my DVDs over.
Suffice to say, I shat my pants.
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Originally Posted by mick_aka
To uphold the British image, I too spilt my blasted tea
Gollies, my deepest sympathies to you poor chaps.
I love limies!
Strange, i was awake at 1 in the morning and didn't feel anything but i live in Cornwall in the South West so i was probably to far away.
So cool.... we never have any earthquakes...
Intitially it was reported as a 4.6 magnitude but the British Geological Survey have confirmed it was a 5.3.
Was this determined by using an actual Richter scale, or by how much tea *they* spilled?
That's cups of tea spilled per 500 square yards.
The chaps I had just arrived home after a night down the pub, following an afternoon of rugger, we had just sat down for a spot of midnight tea while discussing the latest Acts passed by Parliament, when that frightful earthquake spilt our tea and almost caused our plate of biscuits to fall from the table. What a bloody nuisance!
Or alternatively: Yes, I felt it, and the bloody thing woke me up. Bugger off nature!
The devastaion was truly horrific, a sad sad day for the British Empire:(
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~jdb/Damage2_1.jpg