ahhh the irony.
Travelled the world over and feel my first one whilst sat on my **** watching the telly at home in Doncaster

 

That was in 2002 mate

 

BBC NEWS | England | Earth tremor felt across England

 

Just to clarify that one is right report... but the 5.0 tremor happened in 2002

 

The most exciting thing to happen to Lincolnshire in years

USGS Earthquake Hazards Program: Earthquake Location: ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM

Did the earth move for you?

Trust the UK site to be down with a Server fault

 

Epicentre in Hull. 4.7 on the Richter scale and reported to have done hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of improvements.

 

The BBC have got themselves all muddled up ..... they have 2002 down as a 4.8, then a 5.0 on the current 'up to date' page on the BBC news site, I know this for sure as they have 'Breaking news' in the corner ......

 

LMAO...d'oh...wrong quake. But a 5 is still a baby in quake terms, but still interetsing. In 1995 when I was in NZ, I was on the nith floor when a 6.5 struck about 400kms away off the west coast. People were ducking under desks and door ways looking scared, funny as hell until I realised what was happeing. Then two weeks later Mt Ruhapeu spat chunks the size of houses. Choice!

 

It's ok everybody "ar lass" fell down the stairs!!!!

 

 

i thought it was the cat having a poop in the corner when everything rustled...

 

 

I got one of those talking bouncer toys, that says "If your names not down ...... You're not coming in !" and other things got it for Chrissy from a work mate. Not sure what he's trying to tell me!

 

City centre Manchester here, 14th floor apartment. Felt like we were moving a metre in each direction. Scary stuff.

 

That's nice.

 

Can't believe I am actually glad it was an earthquake, my whole bedroom shook fairly vilently,

It was really diificult what to put it down to at the time, was walking around garden with a tourch looking a chimney stacks, scared me just a little.

 

They are now saying 5.1 and centred on Grimsby

That explains a lot

 

This mornings news says the epicentre was Market Rasen.
Woke me up ........ didnt know what was happening till this morning

 

It woke me up - so don't know if the worst was before or after I did a bagpuss-style "oh.. earthquake.. Zzzzzzzzz"

Now it says its a 5.3 on breakfast news.. its getting bigger!

 

5.2 on GMTV now!
It woke us up in Barnsley, there were a lot of lights on in the street too. We thought the pit our house is built on was caving in!
It was different to the one we had in Greece though, that was more 'swirly' and had some aftershocks. This one seemed more of a vibration.

 

Okay - I'm bored of hearing about it already now. Was interesting and exciting for 15 minutes.

Reports of people phoning the police and reports of "things falling off walls" have just annoyed me now.

 

My wife said the earth moved

 

Me too mate lol. So far the earthquake has 5 different eppicentres, i wonder where the next one will be

 

My boomerang landed on my head

 

I've merged two other threads into this one so apologies if any of it doesn't make sense, actually it probably won't be much different to a normal thread in that respect

I didn't feel it BTW

 

I blame anna

 

Just crawled into bed after getting up for a No 1, wondered WTF was goin on!

 

If you felt it then so should we have, hmm, that's so unfair

 

Gutted SC

Must be cos you live up in the hills

 

deffo felt it. floor was vibrating