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« on: 07:29:29, 27-02-2008 » |
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my god! did anyone feel that earthquake?
i must say i was extremely scared.
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Mary Chambers
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« Reply #1 on: 08:23:32, 27-02-2008 » |
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I didn't, here in the NW, though I gather some did. I feel a bit cheated, but I can believe it was scary if it actually happened to you. You wouldn't know what it was.
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Mary Chambers
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« Reply #2 on: 11:40:48, 27-02-2008 » |
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My son in Kilburn was woken by the television in his bedroom shaking, but the son in Camberwell didn't hear/feel anything.
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« Reply #3 on: 11:57:07, 27-02-2008 » |
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A leaf fell off one of my houseplants. It was terrifying.
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Ruth Elleson
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« Reply #4 on: 12:00:51, 27-02-2008 » |
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I've already posted on one of the other threads. However, as I live a few streets away from Mary's son (Camberwell) I thought I'd come over here and respond to Mary's post.
I was sitting on the sofa surfing the net (MUST start going to bed earlier!) and around 1am I felt the building vibrate for a couple of seconds. My first thought was that one of the neighbours must be moving heavy furniture and dropped something - though I've never felt such a sensation before, our floors are concrete, and it was 1am!
I forgot about it straight away, and didn't even make the connection when I had a look on Facebook just before switching the PC off and found that a friend in York had just updated his profile to say he was sure there had just been an earthquake, nor this morning when the BBC breakfast news report was describing how far afield the tremor had been felt. It wasn't until I was on the bus this morning, halfway to work, that I suddenly remembered feeling the building shake.
In other words, it was quite unremarkable here. Had I been asleep in bed, I can't imagine it would have woken me.
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« Reply #5 on: 12:31:27, 27-02-2008 » |
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When my Camberwell son was young(er) - a teenager - it was perfectly possible to vacuum-clean round him without waking him, so it would have to have been quite a big earthquake to affect him.
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« Reply #6 on: 13:05:41, 27-02-2008 » |
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I hope my Mum's OK. She grew up in India and even having my kid bro. play the bass a bit too loud was enough to shake her.
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« Reply #7 on: 14:33:30, 27-02-2008 » |
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When my Camberwell son was young(er) - a teenager - it was perfectly possible to vacuum-clean round him without waking him, so it would have to have been quite a big earthquake to affect him.
In my last place, I had the front bedroom and my housemate had the back bedroom. When a speeding car flattened our front garden wall one night, it woke my housemate but not me  |
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« Reply #8 on: 15:02:36, 27-02-2008 » |
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When my Camberwell son was young(er) - a teenager - it was perfectly possible to vacuum-clean round him without waking him, so it would have to have been quite a big earthquake to affect him.
The easiest three ways to get the most junior member of the Dough entourage to sleep in his infancy were either to sling him in a car, play Pink Floyd at high volumes, or else switch on the hoover. For reasons of domestic hygiene, this latter was the solution most often applied. Worked every time (and kept the carpets spotless). |
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« Reply #9 on: 18:23:02, 27-02-2008 » |
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Indeed, very noticable in York! It sounded like 3 huge lorries driving down the main street at once. I was awake anyway and Lynn said to me "what the hell was that?" As a lapsed geologist, I was asked loads of questions about it at work. My friend sent me a link to the BBC news story as well which was nice. I texted my brother in Cheshire and he said it woke him up. That's another thing crossed off my list of things to do in life. What to see next, I wonder - tornado or active volcano...hmmm... |
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« Reply #10 on: 19:56:13, 27-02-2008 » |
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It was quite scary here in Cheshire! I was still awake but couldn't think what was happening at first. The room shook for a good 5-10 seconds and afterwards I sat there frozen to the spot for ages afraid it would resume! The kids all slept through it - and were disappointed in the morning to learn that they had missed a real live earthquake! Well, OK, it was just a tremor here - thank goodness. The odd thing was it was silent.
I experienced one here about 20 years ago which was much louder. I was in the school I taught in at the time and thought there were noisy children jumping about on the floor above - until I realised that the room above was locked and out of bounds!
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« Reply #11 on: 20:07:36, 27-02-2008 » |
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Looks like something has moved the earth for TOP. I seems to have fallen over, yet again. [No sooner said than it's up and running again.  ] |
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tonybob
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« Reply #12 on: 21:53:59, 27-02-2008 » |
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well, we shook and shook and...
my next door neighbours' bin fell over.
i didn't call the bbc.
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« Reply #13 on: 22:03:23, 27-02-2008 » |
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Looks like something has moved the earth for TOP. I seems to have fallen over, yet again. [No sooner said than it's up and running again. ]You seems to have fallen over, yet again? I'd drink lots of water and get an early night |
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« Reply #14 on: 22:04:13, 27-02-2008 » |
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A BBC reporter rather nicely described it as "a very British earthquake". My local paper reports that someone dropped her cup of tea.
I'd have been scared, I think, if I'd felt it.
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