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Ron Dough
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« on: 09:38:46, 28-04-2007 »
Just to ask whether anyone was within range of the earth tremors this morning, and if so, to check that all's OK....
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« Reply #1 on: 12:57:53, 28-04-2007 »
I'm sorry! Did I miss something? Embarrassed Wink
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« Reply #2 on: 16:51:15, 28-04-2007 »
Sorry, Kitty, I've been away out.

There was a seismic shift below South East England this morning, approx. 5 on the Richter scale, with its epicentre not far from Ashford in Kent.
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« Reply #3 on: 00:24:51, 29-04-2007 »
It's a very strange feeling.  I was in Lincoln High Street once and there was an earth tremor.  Bizarre.  Everyone just stopped and looked wide-eyed at each other. Strange silence.  I'd hate to live somewhere like San Francisco. I have a friend there who is a nurse and she tells me the last time there was a sizeable quake she was at work.  Apparently it was so bad, she was hanging on to a door to stay upright. 
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« Reply #4 on: 00:36:00, 29-04-2007 »
Friends in Deal felt the tremor for about 3 minutes. Folkstone seems to have suffered the most damage to the structure of buildings.

Mind you, though the Earth didn't move for me, my BT telephone connection did. I now get my next door neighbour's calls, and she gets mine. It took over half an hour to get a BT 'engineer' (Indian call centre?) to answer their 'phone (this was after their useless automatic checking system assured me that nothing was wrong with the line!). Even when the 'engineer' finally accepted that there was a fault, all he offered was to contact the exchange and ask them to deal with it "as soon as possible". That phrase is too well known from the BBC's use of it in relation to "temporarily hidden" messages here. :-(
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« Reply #5 on: 16:17:11, 06-05-2007 »
I read about this, didn't realise it at the time...but I wasn't so surprised, because last year there was a minor earth tremor in Livorno (Italy) while we were there - my partner said it couldn't possibly be an earthquake, it must have been just a thunderclap, but the news next day comfirmed that it had been an earth tremor.
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« Reply #6 on: 21:27:59, 06-05-2007 »
I live in Kent but heard nothing ...unlike the bombardment from the army training range at Sheerness when all my windows rattle Angry
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