My house just shook!

[pupstar]

NW close 2 wembly, did u get it in croyden?

[ashley]

NW close 2 wembly, did u get it in croyden?

No, thank fuck.

[pk-]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/27 ... a_useless/

[echo wanderer]

<--- earthquake alumni

SoCal bwoi right here <-----

That shit is second nature here.And in North Cali too.

Heh...noobs...

@Hera:
<3

[amykamala]

<--- earthquake alumni

SoCal bwoi right here <-----

That shit is second nature here.And in North Cali too.

Heh...noobs...

@Hera:
<3

ORLY!?


did not know shit

[scoz]

to whoever it was who said earthquakes happen only on plate boundries - nonsense.

to whoever it was who asked how can you have earthquakes not on a faultline? There are fault lines all over the place in the UK. It's just we are in a fairly tectonically inactive area so there is little build up in pressure around the faults we do have. I bet if there had been seismic surveys done of the area, actually not all that unlikely as they drill for oil in that neck of the woods, they would reveal the fault that caused this.

[dubluke]

i was up until about 1-ish and didn't feel anything, dunno whether it spread to here or was just after i went to sleep...

[ramadanman]

was a bizarre 15 seconds!

[thomas]

to whoever it was who said earthquakes happen only on plate boundries - nonsense.

to whoever it was who asked how can you have earthquakes not on a faultline? There are fault lines all over the place in the UK. It's just we are in a fairly tectonically inactive area so there is little build up in pressure around the faults we do have. I bet if there had been seismic surveys done of the area, actually not all that unlikely as they drill for oil in that neck of the woods, they would reveal the fault that caused this.

Could also be collapsed mines or other rather mundane reasons

Although im not sure on the scale an un-natural earthquake would have, certainly not this much distance anyway.

[boy_arena]

Yea i felt it too. apperently it was the biggest one weve had in 20 years and people from london to north yorkshire felt it. measured 5.2 on the richter scale.

[badger]

Felt like standing next to a LARGE bassbin with HEAVY DUBSTEP lol nah serious was kinda scary ya know lol Some next earth ting downing down right now!

i didn't feel anything probably because i was standing next to a bassbin with dubstep playing at the time. bah i'm well annoyed

[Sub Shifter]

yep was fucking crazy thaught i was going mad just had a zoot and bang everything starts moving.

[metalboxproducts]

It woke me up here in Hackney. I actually thought it was a bus but it lasted far to long to be vibrations from a bus and the they were far heavier then the tremors you get from a bus going by my house.. When i eliminated that possibility, I realized that it must have been a tremor. It was pretty heavy though and lasted a good 15 seconds.

[ashley]

to whoever it was who said earthquakes happen only on plate boundries - nonsense.

to whoever it was who asked how can you have earthquakes not on a faultline? There are fault lines all over the place in the UK. It's just we are in a fairly tectonically inactive area so there is little build up in pressure around the faults we do have. I bet if there had been seismic surveys done of the area, actually not all that unlikely as they drill for oil in that neck of the woods, they would reveal the fault that caused this.

I wouldnt say it is a fault, but I would probably blame it on bedrock.

[ashley]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7266741.stm

The UK lies well away from the world's tectonic hotspots but these processes still play a role in the country's relatively small tremors.

Many of the quakes in the UK are clustered around an enormous block of rock known as the Midlands Microcraton. This is an ancient, Precambrian (older than 590 million years) feature that runs up through Birmingham towards the Potteries.

It is composed of harder rocks than those either side of it. Although the details are not well understood, it seems likely that, in response to tectonic pressures originating in the Atlantic (where the surface of the Earth is being pulled apart), those softer rocks on either side are disturbed.

There are a number of active faults that line the Midlands Microcraton and many of the tremors experienced on the western side of the English Midlands, up to the Pennines, are a result of rocks jostling in this area.

Britain also feels the effects of earthquakes in the North Sea. Here, the crust is much thinner and it is also marked by large numbers of faults.

Remember, the earth beneath our feet is never completely static. The crust is constantly on the move. For example, much of the UK is still rebounding after the melting of the great block of ice that covered the country thousands of years ago.

I was pretty much bangon

[metalboxproducts]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7266741.stm

The UK lies well away from the world's tectonic hotspots but these processes still play a role in the country's relatively small tremors.

Many of the quakes in the UK are clustered around an enormous block of rock known as the Midlands Microcraton. This is an ancient, Precambrian (older than 590 million years) feature that runs up through Birmingham towards the Potteries.

It is composed of harder rocks than those either side of it. Although the details are not well understood, it seems likely that, in response to tectonic pressures originating in the Atlantic (where the surface of the Earth is being pulled apart), those softer rocks on either side are disturbed.

There are a number of active faults that line the Midlands Microcraton and many of the tremors experienced on the western side of the English Midlands, up to the Pennines, are a result of rocks jostling in this area.

Britain also feels the effects of earthquakes in the North Sea. Here, the crust is much thinner and it is also marked by large numbers of faults.

Remember, the earth beneath our feet is never completely static. The crust is constantly on the move. For example, much of the UK is still rebounding after the melting of the great block of ice that covered the country thousands of years ago.

I was pretty much bangon

Yes. Yes you were

[auan]

I'm in Glasgow and didn't feel shit. Probably didn't help that I was sound asleep at the time.

[badger]

I was pretty much bangon