: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
I wanna feel an earthquake!
:o Curse you Mother Nature!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by JDB1983
:rofl:
Everyone at works been going on about this all day, how it woke them up and they thought their houses were gonna fall down, blah, blah, blah.
I didn't feel or hear a thing, i've always said i could sleep through an earthquake.
Was it felt in London
Yea, my friends in Enfield felt it.
Interestingly while the UK quake wasn't on the local news here in Colorado, US, we actually DID have an earthquake yesterday here in Colorado just like you guys, though it was only 2-something on the Richter Belmont scale and it was probably less violent than a flea farting.
Great picture and comments, JDB1983. I LOL'd. Really!
How is England going to recover from these losses? More pints at the pub?Quote:
Originally Posted by mick_aka
We cannot recover from these loses. Our country looms towards a recession. Time to dust off the top hats and monocles and lobby for a new Parliament.
I felt it - everyone in the area was shitting themselves thinking the refineries twenty minutes away had blown up or something. Floods last July, earthquakes in February: what's the next wacky weather prediction? Locust plagues?
Either way, blearily sitting in bed whilst the room shakes has to be a contender for Most Surreal Moment of 2008.
I remember about 5 or 6 aftershocks that occurred when I was living in Southern California as a child.
Aside from shit falling off our shelves, it was almost fun.
Why would you have shit on your shelves? :?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dartagnan1083
"Shit on shelves" is a emerging trend, I expect it to hit the UK and day now.
You mean you don't wear monocles and top hats all the time? Do you at least wear them when you aren't spilling tea?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr Smith
That horrendous quake woke me up, too. I sat bolt upright, and thought it must be a tank or a bomb or something. Then it stopped.
I reached across for my monocle to check the time on my antique clock, but FIE! It had slipped from its perch and been dashed to the ground. I have still to look on English-bay for a new one.
(I have a confession, though - I don't drink tea at all. I am a coffee drinker, and fear for my life every day. Please don't report me to the government, they will put me in the tower, and then burn me at the appointed time :( )
You DON'T drink tea!!? *monocle falls out*, that's just not cricket! You just wait there lad while my butler Jeeves brings me the phone... The constabulary needs to know about this!Quote:
Originally Posted by Smii
*puts monocle back in*
Bugger the constabulary! This unsporting misdemeanour needs to be bought before the House of Lords so that British justice can be dispensed to the most extreme letter of the law. Bugger the tower too! I do believe it will be the gallows for you, old boy! Bloody coffee!
Also, under British custom, monocles and top hats are often used for ceremonial reasons such as; electing governments, when the Queen comes for tea, watching cricket, tea on the lawn with more than one Lord or Earl, etc.
Hear Hear!! To the House of Lords!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr Smith
Sorry that I'm not funny enough to continue the British stereotype, I'm just saying I slept through it. I'm in St Albans, Hertfordshire. :p
Clearly you're descended from Normans as opposed to the more witty Angles or Saxons.Quote:
Originally Posted by Collision Cat
Also, your football club are tosh and about to bomb out the Conference South :) That is all.
To the House of Lords again, squire?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr Smith
That's not an Earthquake, that's a semi-truck rolling by (ok, so I live in S.F. where 4.7's are daily occurances) :DQuote:
Originally Posted by JDB1983
Are you belitteling our Earthquake? I'll have you know at least one garden chair fell over!Quote:
Originally Posted by Strider
It'll be the tower for you if you ever came to visit! :p
I may set up an emergency garden chair fund.
But in the meantime I wonder if JDB1983 would care to accompany me in a game of cricket followed by tea, scones and jolly conversation?
A terrible decision to make, old boy. I don't think it's a crime of the land to live in either St. Albans, support a football club about to be relegated or to be descended from Normans. I'd check our constitution, but we don't have one, so instead my chums and I shall discuss the matter in the pub over a few pints of ale.Quote:
Originally Posted by JDB1983
Jolly unsporting of you not to invite the rest of us. I reckon it would be roaringly splendid if we all went to the palace for a lawn party. Cricket with two players sounds a trifle ghastly. Croquet anybody?Quote:
Originally Posted by mick_aka
:rofl:Quote:
Originally Posted by Smii
Good golly gosh, why yes old chap what a sporting offer! Shall I bring the cucumber sandwiches? What about inviting Mr Smith too, what a lark we shall have, what what?Quote:
Originally Posted by mick_aka