Earthquake

[TheScullster]

"Block" wrote

Links show epicentre at Market Rasen some way south from Hull. I live west Hull and the effects (like another poster has noted) were like a surveillance helicopter directly above the bedroom. Our bedroom is an extension over the garage which I think may have made that room less resilient. Moving from our room back into the main house, the effect seemed less pronounced (though I'm not sure it wasn't just the quake subsiding at the same time IYSWIM). The floor shook alarmingly, doors rattled etc. Sufficient action to warrant a look round for damage outside with a torch. Strange thing - no-one else out and about.

Phil

[Roger]

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Here in West Yorkshire I perhaps should have noticed something but I didn't notice it at all. However I was asleep.

Also par for the course. There was a noticeable terror in Skipton in the late 80s. First thing I knew about that was when a colleague rushed in to share the experience. He had been dictating a letter at the time and played back a distant rumble to try and convince me the quake had happened.

I haven't spoken to any of my neighbours as yet but if the tremor was felt in these parts I expect a goodly number of dry stone wall collapses in the area. Some walls are really only still standing out of habit.

[MM]

Ditto. I'm close to The Wash. Must be terrifying to live through a really big 'quake. This one was extremely frightening. Never experienced ANY tremor in 62 years, so at least it's one experience I have had before I die! I don't want another.

MM

[Rod]

High Wycombe area. Box left rather precariously - fell onto floor at exactly right time. Made a little noise but somehow woke both of us. Just like another (Birmingham?) earthquake a number of years ago (that was stronger) and Buncefield more recently. Neither of us realised it was a quake until this morning.

[Bob Mannix]

Aaaaargh, that'd be the Skipton Terror of which many tales be told. "Twas a full moon and evil beasts walked the land..." etc ;o)

[Dave Liquorice]

Or up on the North Pennines. I might have been alseep by then or at least very close, the last look at a clock was 0043. The other half was still up and didn't notice anything. Our place is built directly onto the bedrock not perched on top of a jelly of London clay...

[Gotde T Shirt]

Felt it here in east Cheshire. Initially scary but soon got over it when we realised what it was.

Worst bit was that it woke some of the wild bird population in the tree just outside our bedroom window and provoked a half-hearted dawn chorus for a while.

[marpate1]

=A0 London SW

Ah, I fondly remember the quake of '84 - that were a real-un :)

Actually, it was the most surreal sensation ever. I was a 13 year old lad sat at home and the house shook violently, the windows rattled and the ornaments danced. Wasn't entirely sure that anyhing had really happened until my mum asked if I had felt it.

The one last night I felt in Cheltenham. But had I not let the puppy out to "do her thing", I don't think that I would have woken. Just one quick shake and it was all over - what was I talking about????, oh, I remember - and in ran the puppy terrified. The birds started sqwarking and that was it.

The one we had a couple of years ago woke me, but was nothing compared to your last night.

[Roger]

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Jut to follow up my own post. The only evidence I have found sound far is outside the house. A heavy piece of wood 11" x 3" x 3' 8" leaning against an embankment wall 8" out of vertical was thrown down. Maybe the frequency of vibration of the ground was on a par with the natural frequency of this unrestrained upside down pendulum.

[Donwill]

Slept through it, didn't hear a thing. Maybe it depends on the ground under the house. Oswestry, N Shropshire Don

[Roger]

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:-) , :-(

Spill chuckers are no defence against entirely wrong words. I frequently find that I have typed something that bears little if any connection to what I was thinking. I usually manage to root such errors out prior to posting but that one escaped. I wonder if that is because there must be an association at a subconscious level between earthquakes and terror.

[MM]

No, the sheep repair them secretly during the night.

MM

[sm_jamieson]

Good point, I would have thought clay for example would absorb some of the energy. If you were in bedrock, though ... In W Midlands on clay, just a slight shaking for about 15 seconds, but I would have missed the initial bang which woke me up ! Simon.

[Stephen Howard]

I don't think I felt anything ( Meon Valley, Hants ) - but then I was rather preoccupied with writing at the time. However, I did hear what sounded like a small bird or a very large moth hit the kitchen window ( a sort of low-pitched 'donk' ) - and I suspect that was around 1am - so perhaps there was enough of a tremor to shift the wooden window frame very slightly?

Regards,

[The Medway Handyman]

Nothing in N Kent.

[ARWadworth]

Here you go Roger.

Taken on the West/South Yorkshire boundaries. It certainly made the birds sing but there is a lot of wind noise in the way. The microphone is at the other side of the house so I am not sure what the banging is. I thought someone had sneaked into my bedroom and was shaking the bed.

[Mary Fisher]

We once slept through a much bigger one in Iceland, I was so disappointed. It's good to have a new experience.

Mary Leeds, woke us up, lasted perhaps not more than half a minute. No damage.

[Mary Fisher]

So was I until it happened. I'm not a light sleeper but it made me leap out of bed. Normally I ooze out of bed :-)

Mary

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[Mary Fisher]

thanks,

Mary

[geoff]

One of my employees in Abbots Langley (3 miles away) felt it, In the centre of Watford ... nothing