Thread: Earthquake!
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27th Feb 2008, 1:51 AM #1
Earthquake!
Who felt it then?
I felt the earth move a bit, I was outside at the time, I thought it was the wind though!
I only realised what it was when people started texting asking if I'd felt it!
It's breaking news on Sky/BBC now.
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27th Feb 2008, 4:17 AM #2
I heard Janice Long talking about it on her show around the time you posted Matt, she wasn't long in getting some feedback from people who'd felt it either.
Wouldn't have felt it here in Wales though fortunately.
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27th Feb 2008, 8:15 AM #3
Thought it was the central heating blowin up initially,there was a tremor abt 8years ago but nothing like this
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27th Feb 2008, 9:46 AM #4
Official news! That's the first Earthquake to wake me up, ever!
I heard rumbling & Angela's dressing table was shaking & rattling her necklaces against the mirror. I thought part of the house was coming down. But that's what you get for being half asleep.
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27th Feb 2008, 10:06 AM #5
I'm gutted I slept through it all.
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27th Feb 2008, 10:17 AM #6Wayne Guest
I was awake.
It started as a distant rumble, like a train going by, & actually got louder & more intense, as it seemed to get closer. Then the whole flat shook for a few seconds. Not bad enough to vibrate anything off the shelf or anything, but it was definitely a hairy moment before it passed away!
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27th Feb 2008, 10:33 AM #7
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27th Feb 2008, 11:05 AM #8Wayne Guest
I don't kill spiders, i leave them alone.
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27th Feb 2008, 11:56 AM #9
I enjoyed it. We should have more earthquakes.
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27th Feb 2008, 4:10 PM #10Pip Madeley Guest
Preferably nearer your house than mine.
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27th Feb 2008, 5:04 PM #11
I can't help but wonder if you've seen the Fast Show sketch of the guy who experienced an earthquake but is unable to stop swearing while recounting the story. He starts his account in almost exactly that way...
For anyone who hasn't, it's here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R56Dkf2cuKE
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27th Feb 2008, 5:13 PM #12Pip Madeley Guest
And probably not work-safe.
But classic. I'm sure Wayne's seen it, he's a big Fast Show fan
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27th Feb 2008, 5:27 PM #13
That's brilliant! Not as good as Bob Fleming but still funny.
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27th Feb 2008, 6:35 PM #14
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27th Feb 2008, 6:38 PM #15Captain Tancredi Guest
I can't tell whether it woke me up or not- before everybody leaps to the assumption that I was in some kind of drunken haze in the small hours of the morning, I've been slightly ill the last couple of days and gone to bed at about 7 with pounding headaches. Last night also wasn't helped by the fact that the house was being buffeted by gales until midnight or so, and because my bedroom is on the western face of the building it tends to catch the prevailing wind direction and it was noisy.
Having said that, I think I remember being woken by some alarms going off but just rolled over.
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27th Feb 2008, 6:51 PM #16Wayne Guest
My folks live 8 miles from Market Rasen. They must've slept through the tremors, but both my sister & Mum & Dad were woken my a loud bang, which Dad said sounded like a car had driven into the garden wall.
There was no major damage but they have a lot of paintings in the house, & they were all skewiff, & a couple of plates in my Mum's corner cabinet slipped down & broke some glasses.
So it wasn't exactly Tsunami, but even so the police apparently got over 700 calls. God knows what people expected the local plod to do about it.
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27th Feb 2008, 8:06 PM #17
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27th Feb 2008, 9:27 PM #18
It woke me Mum up and knocked over my Rose (series 1) and Grey Suit Auton actions figures but strangely enough none of the others
I of course slept through the whole thing.
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27th Feb 2008, 9:56 PM #19
I was in bed and it woke me up! The bed was shuddering and felt like it was moving on wheels. The rumbling was quite scary actually.
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27th Feb 2008, 10:07 PM #20
I think I felt it but not majorly. I was drifting off to sleep at that time traveling, leaving logic and reason, traveling, to the arms of unconsciousness and there was a noise/rumble that sounded to me at the time like someone very heavy running over the roof or through the house. I assumed it was either a train or a gale or I'd imagined it.
Exciting!
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27th Feb 2008, 11:01 PM #21
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28th Feb 2008, 1:55 AM #22
It does make you despair how thick the vast majority of people are. I suppose it makes a slight change from them dialing 999 just to order a taxi or a pizza though. These are the kinds of people who will shout abuse at a soap actor they see in the street just because they play a bad character. The kinds of people who only have the dimmest flicker of consciousness or grasp on reality, and they're bloody everywhere. The great ignored/ignorant majority.
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28th Feb 2008, 7:20 AM #23
I didn't feel it, which is unsurprising. Honestly, we're the ones in an earthquake zone!
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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28th Feb 2008, 7:26 AM #24
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28th Feb 2008, 3:16 PM #25
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