The Earth moved for me !

So the UK has had its biggest earthquake for 25 years - 5.3 on the Richter.

I live 80-odd miles away from the epicentre - well out of it. Just going to bed at 1.00am last night when I heard an approaching rumbling and wondered why my neighbour had chosen such a daft time to have a delivery by juggernaught lorry. Over the space of a few seconds it got much louder and the whole house shook - quite a scary experience. The thing that surprised me most was the incredible noise - deeply rumbling and very powerful, not unlike the average Chav's car hi-fi. Living not too far from a major airport my first thought was that a large plane had crashed locally.

It certainly made me think about other parts of the world where this sort of thing happens regularly and you end up camping in the street. And there's me thinking support & resistance are important!

I suppose the doom-mongers will blame it on global warming. Then the do-gooders will tell us that we have to keep our cars in the garage permanently, grow a beard and walk every where in sandals.

Well I have never experienced one, 43 earthquake free years, and would like to keep it that way.
A quick squiz of google returned no mention of damage. Is that the case?

westernforce said:

Well I have never experienced one, 43 earthquake free years, and would like to keep it that way.
A quick squiz of google returned no mention of damage. Is that the case?

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BBC website has details - odd chimney down and a bit of wall cracking, so nothing too serious. Knowing journalists' ways, there will probably be the odd report of "pensioner trips over cat" etc !

5.3 sounds weighty much structural damage ? was it down south ?

It hit me too, very similar to the last one we had in 2002.

Apparently the epicentre was Lincoln, though I had people on the phone to me from London and Manchester saying they felt it, so it was no joke.

Nothing like nature to put us back in our place.

sorry guys, that curry I had the night before was wreaking havoc on my bowels. If you thought a cracked chimney was bad, you should see the state of my bog porcelaine. I think the neighbours mistook my a rse for a volcanic eruption, given the sulphuric stench, but everyone else seems to have thought it was an earthquake!? :whistling

Arbitrageur said:

sorry guys, that curry I had the night before was wreaking havoc on my bowels. If you thought a cracked chimney was bad, you should see the state of my bog porcelaine. I think the neighbours mistook my a rse for a volcanic eruption, given the sulphuric stench, but everyone else seems to have thought it was an earthquake!? :whistling

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Yes, I felt it in Surrey. It's all this global warming, we need to watch our carbon emissions, Mother Earth can't take this abuse from humans for much longer. Hear her crying. We have been warned.














Ok, I was taking the ****.

Yes the earth moved for me too :clap: - the most exciting natural event to hit the UK this century maybe.
At first it felt like an out of control wahing machine on its last legs, bouncing around the kitchen, but went on & got louder before stopping just as suddenly as it started.
I am 60 miles from the epicentre. It really made the house shake quite vigourously, but not enough to knock any items off any of the shelves. Good job really, as those ganja filled plants are a nightmare to clean up once tipped over lol:(joke).