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Geek Culture / UK earthquake? 0:55am 27-2-08?

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GatorHex
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Posted: 27th Feb 2008 02:07 Edited at: 27th Feb 2008 02:16
Did anyone near UK Manchester notice a small earthquake 5 mins ago?

Normally I sleep though them, this is the 1st I think I've ever noticed, it was like someone was in the room shaking my bed, freaky.

I can't log onto any of the UK eathquake web servers so maybe other people out there are checking this out an overloading them?

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James H
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Posted: 27th Feb 2008 02:20 Edited at: 27th Feb 2008 02:24
yeah, thought i just smoked to much!

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Posted: 27th Feb 2008 02:21
Yes! It was very brief, I thought it was just too much coffee at first.

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El Goorf
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Posted: 27th Feb 2008 02:23 Edited at: 27th Feb 2008 02:25
yeh, it scared the crap out of me, i aquired quite an adrenaline buzz. i was playing tf2 with some friends on teamspeak, i was like "omg the house is shaking.. wtf [omg omg omg etc etc]" then it occured to me it was an earthquake, so i asked "andy can you feel that too", before i realised my internet connection went dead.

after i resumed connection, a friend in oxford started saying he could feel it too.

it was quite wobbly:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2008nyae.php

my floorboards are bouncy enough as it is. if i jiggle my leg on the floor, the vibration goes all the way across the room and the monitor on my desk bouncy, so with this 4.7 earthquake, everything was rather uber...

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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 27th Feb 2008 02:30
I didn't feel a thing down in Guildford... Then again, I might have put anything I felt down to Alcohol...

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Posted: 27th Feb 2008 03:48
I only once felt an Earthquake, which was in Egypt and lasted for 30 seconds. It was extremely light, it only threw some glasses from the table and stuff like that. Scary stuff.


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Osiris
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Posted: 27th Feb 2008 04:03
Ah earthquakes, I do not miss thee. However, this is on digg right now haha. Magnitude 4.7.

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Gil Galvanti
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Posted: 27th Feb 2008 04:20 Edited at: 27th Feb 2008 04:20
Never been in any natural disasters (other than thunderstorms) in my life . Where I live (Dallas, Texas) is just out of reach of tornadoes, literally about 30 minutes from the tornado belt, too far from coast for hurricanes, too far from lakes for flooding, and too far from faults for earthquakes .


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Posted: 27th Feb 2008 04:44
Minnesota only has devastating snow storms haha, and occasional tornadoes...

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El Goorf
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Posted: 27th Feb 2008 05:26
Quote: "too far from faults for earthquakes"


and the uk isnt?

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GatorHex
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Posted: 27th Feb 2008 06:56 Edited at: 27th Feb 2008 07:03
Disasters in the UK are pretty rare http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7266136.stm biggest earth quake for 25 years and somone hurt their leg.

When I see USA houses destroyed by tornados I think did they never get the three little pigs story over there? Bild 'em out of bricks and concrete or the damn wolf will blow 'em in!

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Blobby 101
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Posted: 27th Feb 2008 07:45
wow, weird. i didn't feel a thing. i was in bed early last night so i probably slept through it...


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Posted: 27th Feb 2008 08:44
Quote: "When I see USA houses destroyed by tornados I think did they never get the three little pigs story over there? Bild 'em out of bricks and concrete or the damn wolf will blow 'em in!"
Yeah, I saw a program once where they were talking about this old bird who had her home blown away like in 1930 or something, then she and her husband built their own home. When the next really big storm came along they all evacuated she stayed put. Next day everything was destroyed apart from her house (couple of broken windows and a few slates from the roof or whatever was all). They were like totally praising her for her house building skills etc. Obviously it was made out of brick. I mean c'mon. Bit obvious if you don't want your house to blow away then don't use wood... Weird how we don't get it anywhere near as bad in the UK and yet we almost 100% use brick...

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Posted: 27th Feb 2008 09:48
The earth moved for me too - I am 10 miles from the epicentre here in Lincolnshire. Never felt anything quite like that before - the house shook for just over 10 seconds and a few things fell over. Apparantly they are now saying the magnitude was 5.3. No big deal compared to proper quakes elsewhere in the world, but for the UK that was quite a biggie. Weird sensation - thought last night's curry was having undesirable effects.



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Posted: 27th Feb 2008 10:15
Yes, we felt it. We could hear the glasses in the cupboard downstairs rattling. My missus competely freaked out - "THE HOUSE JUST MOVED! THE WHOLE HOUSE JUST MOVED!!!!"
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Posted: 27th Feb 2008 11:38 Edited at: 27th Feb 2008 11:38
I didn't feel anything in Liverpool, Although I was asleep at the time... I've known to be a heavy sleeper.
If it did reach as far as here, then I can officially sleep through an Earthquake.

Apparently the most likely place to see a tornado is Britain (statistically). Although we never get anything like in America.

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Posted: 27th Feb 2008 12:56
Quote: "Apparently the most likely place to see a tornado is Britain (statistically). "


I've seen quite a few. But they are feeble efforts, usually just a wisp of grey cloud that touches the ground and is over in 60 seconds.
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Posted: 27th Feb 2008 14:12
Quote: "I didn't feel a thing down in Guildford"


really? It woke me up from my nice sleep

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Posted: 27th Feb 2008 15:00
I was living near birmingham during the 2002 quake, i slept straight through it though the local sports hall was damaged, the floor was completely warped. i think i should be glad i wasnt in bed, and was online talking to friends via teamspeak while it happened, if i was in bed and woken up by it, i think i would have freaked out beyond a heart attack.

what helped me calm down was on of my turkish flatmates getting out of his room, walking to the kitchen to get a drink while the whole thing was happening, i havent spoken to him about it but i remember him saying he's from a town near the violent fault line in turkey so he's probably used to it

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Posted: 27th Feb 2008 15:52
Yes (Derby)...my bed shook, thought the party animals upstairs keeping me awake made my bed shake somehow...shame I was hoping to kill them for it...instead I'll blame Loki, Loki always causes earthquakes.

Though amusingly, a friend had his mother (living next door) try and enter because of the earthquake, he thought it was a burgalar, he got his re-enactments musket, bayonet and sword, sat in the dark poised with a flash round on his musket to scare the hell out of the burgalar, when instead scaring the crap out of his Mum thinking she had been shot.

Though I'd have any sympathy for a burgalar breaking into my friend's house, because of the major WTF factor of a man shooting a musket at you...if he was dressed up it would be even better.

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Posted: 27th Feb 2008 16:56
I was still awake, and blamed the large amount of sweets consumed that day.


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Posted: 27th Feb 2008 17:22
I didnt feel it but then again I was asleep and I do live far away in the South East of England.
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Posted: 27th Feb 2008 17:39
I live in North Yorkshire and didn't feel anything. However everyone else did! I am a heavy sleeper!


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Posted: 27th Feb 2008 18:28
Hmmm, I slept through it, my highly alert friends noticed though.

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