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Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 2:25 am
by pupstar
NW close 2 wembly, did u get it in croyden?

Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 2:29 am
by ashley
PUPSTAR wrote:NW close 2 wembly, did u get it in croyden?
No, thank fuck.

Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 5:00 am
by pk-

Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 7:02 am
by echo wanderer
hera wrote:<--- earthquake alumni

SoCal bwoi right here <-----

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

Heh...noobs...

@Hera:
<3

Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 7:05 am
by amykamala
Echo Wanderer wrote:
hera wrote:<--- 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 :o :o :o shit

Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 8:25 am
by 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.

Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 8:38 am
by 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...

Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 8:44 am
by ramadanman
was a bizarre 15 seconds!

Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 8:58 am
by thomas
scoz wrote: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.

Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 10:04 am
by 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.

Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 12:52 pm
by badger
Djprojekts wrote: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

Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 1:37 pm
by Sub Shifter
yep was fucking crazy thaught i was going mad just had a zoot and bang everything starts moving. :roll:

Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 2:23 pm
by 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. :o

Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 2:36 pm
by ashley
scoz wrote: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.

Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 3:07 pm
by ashley
Mr Hyde wrote: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 ;)

Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 4:09 pm
by metalboxproducts
Ashley wrote:
Mr Hyde wrote: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 :lol:

Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 4:09 pm
by auan
I'm in Glasgow and didn't feel shit. Probably didn't help that I was sound asleep at the time. :D

Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 4:14 pm
by badger
Ashley wrote:I was pretty much bangon ;)
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