We've just had an earthquake!

[piskieinboots]

I never felt a thing but then we had night flying with the 'copters last night

[winolover]

i have been feeling a few little ones over the past few months, just thought it was me ?
it's scarey to think about, Meteorite coming down a couple of weekends ago, Lunar Eclipses last week, all these must be affecting the earth,
Does anyone remember when we had loads over a few weeks in 2002?

[pigletwillie]

I was at work and several people bailed off items of plant quickly thinking it was starting up, despite it all being locked off.

Twas a tad scarey.

[Hazel at the Hill]

I did wonder if it was the wine upstairs exploding for a moment - but the cats ran downstairs, and realised that it wasn't me when I stuck my head out the window and heard the birdies grumbling!

[jacob marley]

Well someone has to ask the question did the earth move for you jacob

[Headfry]

Mr H and I woke about 1'ish "did you feel that"?, something went crash as well and cats not at all happy this morning. So I am guessing that we felt it in Oxon!

[lainey lou]

Well I'm a little jelous! The earth did not move for me last night!

[lottie dolly]

we live in north leicester,and it woke us up,it is scary when you were asleep,i had an idea what it was as i remember the last one a few years ago,but it was daylight then,we are used to some heavy vehicles going past in the night,but this had an erie feel .

[smallblueplanet]

Nor me lou.

But if it had rumbled we'd probably have thought it was the Lads practising night manouevres on Salisbury Plain - they fire some BIG guns down there, our windows and doors often rattle!

Very scarey the first time we heard it, just after we'd moved in, with no furniture yet, sleeping on the floor - thought the house was was falling down, very loud bangs late at night!

[Armorel]

Wow! That all sounds very scary! Glad to hear that everyone is OK.

Armorel

[Bren In Pots]

We'd just got in bed when the Quake happened it shook the whole house and we're about 70 mile away from the epicentre so it must have been scary for those living closer.

[Protea]

Didn't feel it here in Mid-Bedfordshire, but to be honest i'm glad i didn't as hubby was away last night, and the last time i experienced an earthquake was in Indonesia in 2005 (the 2nd big tsunami they had) and i was terrified, so God knows what i would have been like last night. I must have slept through it, i'm a heavy sleeper!

What i find strange is the reports of the noise people heard - like a train or something. The earthquake i experienced was disturbing as there was no sound whatsoever (apart from the creaking of the wooden buildings), perhaps it was the remoteness of where we were staying but the silence made it somewhat even more frightening as i expected the noise to be really loud and grumbling. Weird hey?

Hope everyone is OK and no major damage.

[Seahorse]

What i find strange is the reports of the noise people heard - like a train or something.

A train is a good way of describing it - like when an intercity whizzes past as you stand on the platform. I don't know whether it was the sound of the quake itself, or just the noise of everything moving.

I'm only 14 miles from the epicentre here and I still have some extra adrenalin going on!

It was surreal walking to school earlier and seeing all the wonky chimney pots.

[Gauckwin]

Yep, felt it in Bolton

[Flummery]

We were woken by it - it made a sort of whumph, whumph, whumph noise and in the morning I found the shower gel on the floor of the shower and a bit of plaster on the kitchen worktop. You could feel the house moving. I think we felt the aftershock too - I woke up saying 'It's happening again!' and thought I felt another 4 or 5 whumphs but Himself said I was dreaming. The noise didn't really sound like a train here but I can see how it might be interpreted that way. When I woke with what I assume was the aftershock I had been dreaming that there was a train across the middle of the garden - between the house and the veg plot!

Not a very nice experience! I was on hol in Llandudno whern the 1984 quake struck. We heard one dull thud preceded by a massive sqwawk as all the seagulls lifted off the buildings at once!