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I think we just had an earthquake!

Just before 1am, the whole of my house lifted up, and shook for about ten seconds.

I've never felt anything else like it in the UK.

Anyone else experience it?

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Just found this.

BBC NEWS | England | Earth tremor felt across England

Glad I wasn't dreaming.

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That was felt all over the country. London Scarborough Wales Lancaster

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Felt it here down in Rochdale, whole house started shaking, crazy!

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check this out , seems you had a knee tremblor
Magnitude 4.7 - ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM

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I remember an earth tremor in the early seventies.

This was much more severe.

I thought there had been an accident, and my house was about to fall down.

Could be after shocks from the terrible earthquakes they're having in Indonesia.

We're all doomed....doomed I tell you.

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If the epicentre was near Hull, I'm glad I wasn't there, it was frightening enough here.

I hope Cyfr's rock plants are alright.:D

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this link shows you the range Event 2008nyae Map

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My lad felt it as did Joyce. I didn't but I went sick and had a lot of pressure in the head. but that could be the wine.

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Same Here I'm only down the road in Shaw, was reading a book then, felt and saw my bedroom wall(the outside one) literally move out of square before returning to normal, that and the celling together, several times and felt my bed proper shake,that was freaky!

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*L*

i thought it was a truck rumbling past till i noticed the mirrors around the office were still shaking

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Thanks for that link.

I filled in the questionaire, telling them my wardrobe doors flew open, and the bed lifted off the floor.

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I wonder if any couples were being 'intimate' at that very moment?

Give them something to chat about afterwards, whilst they have their cigarette.:D

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Yeh, you wish. :D

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Went on for longer than ten seconds here n was quite bad, epicentre is louth apparently. There's been some damage.

At least my third, knew what it was straight away. I felt the 5 one from yam yam land, that did severe damage if i remember rightly some houses had to be knocked down.

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Strange thing was, for those ten seconds my Parkinson's went away.

I guess the shakes cancelled each other out.:D

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the magnitude was said to be 4.7 check link:

BBC NEWS | England | Earth tremor felt across England

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Really they did. I thought there had been an explosion, perhaps next door, and my old house was about to be made into rubble.

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Don't worry you old fart. I'd miss you.

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I'm peeved now, I never felt a thing, I shouted at the lad because he wasn't asleep, them bollocked him again for waking his mother up only to be told by both of the the house shook, Don't know how I missed that. Feel like s*** though, I was fine up to then.

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Had quite a few people message me about this but honestly didn't feel a thing!
Could be the drink though!

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dont want to be a Jerimiah and bring bad news , but you can be sure your water and gas bills will be going up , the utility companies are going to be saying they need to upgrade all the old cast-iron gas and water mains in the name of public safety and guess who will have to pay ? suggest you get online to your brokers/pension fund managers and tell them to buy stock in water and gas supply companies.

not trying to be facetious, but people will make money out of this ,

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Well it shook here up in bash.wasnt a nice experience,but the dogs slept through it.

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felt it here in rising bridge, thought i was going a bit funny for a moment when i felt the sofa move...

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First reported casualty.:D



''Also our pet parrot appears to have fallen off his perch and is bleeding slightly from his beak."
Earthquake hits Northampton - Northampton Chronicle and Echo

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wonder just how much damage it has done. Hope nothing of significance has been damaged in lincolnshire. Guess we'll hear all about it the coming days, more about climate change etc .

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My plants are doing well!

The first time I knew about the earthquake was when I was inundated with texts from students back at my accommodation and even friends back in Accrington. I blame not noticing on alcohol or the music with loud base going on upstairs.

I quoted your post because when I got a lift home the taxi driver was telling us about a "client" who was... getting intimate with somebody as it happened. :p

As far as I'm concerned nothing has been effected around where I live, but other areas of Hull have experienced fallen chimneys.

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If you go to that site you can fill your details in and how it felt to you.

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It woke me up and it sounded (in my sleepy state) like gravel being thrown at the window and the bed was shaking violently!! I was half asleep, but this morning I did wonder if I'd had some sort of fit during the night (I remembered shaking in bed).

I'm glad it was something that could be explained, as it did worry me this morning.

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yes woke me up to, bed shaking like mad

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I woke up briefly to the noise of the headboard banging the wall.
Thought - 'a while since I heard that' ;)

Noticed my tomcat on the bed
Thought - 'Oh he's found yet another way to get me up'

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It woke me up first i thought the baby was having a fit cos her crib was shaking and then noticed the wardrobe doors were shaking like we had a ghost!! it was very strange i turned on the news to see if it said owt on there but i fell asleep again!

I woke up at 6.30 to feed katie and it was on Gmtv, i shouted to mick "I knew it was an earthquake" he jumped up wondering what i was on about! well that made sure he was up for work. hehe.

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Never felt a thing :D then again I'm a heavy sleeper

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same here, u can drill a hole next to me and wont notice a thing

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oh thankyou thankyou thankyou...... i was in the bath.... thought i was cracking up... came down to see if anypne had posted about it but nothing was here...lol

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It woke me up, I thought the fitted wardrobes were about to come away from the wall.
I remember the one in the 70's but this was much more severe and seemed to go on for much longer.

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My hubby asked me to keep still, when I said I'm not moving he said we just had a b****y earth quake then, turned over and went back to sleep. I never felt a thing.....

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well i can be woken by an earthquake, i was !! i felt my bed shaking like mad & heard my blinds rattling at the window, but fell straight back to sleep.

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Again, like everybody else .. woke me up, but must have been at the tail end .. convinced myself that I had been dreaming and that it was not some entity shaking my bed, particularly after me lights going out the other night.
Didn't stop me keeping my light on for a while though.

Thanks Garinda .. like Emamum phew, and thank you, thank you. x

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Did you notice on that map? epicentre near Hull and the only yellow bit on the whole map, (light Damage) was Liverpool, Some scousers probably claiming for a new roof on his insurance as we speak!;)

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Woke me up, thought some one was trying to kick the door down, we have just started locking the outside doors to our block as we've had a lot of probs with little scrots causing trouble, thought they were taking it out on the doors.

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Haha, I forgot to tell you, facebook groups had popped up by the time I got home. "Hull Earthquake Survivors"

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we felt it in notts at about 1 am woke us up

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I was awake and shouted at my cats, but then I sat there and thought for a second - Hang on my cats couldn't have made the bed shake like that!! I'd be bloody worried if they could. lol.

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Nevermind, dont listen to me, i didnt know what it was at the time but around 1:15 in morning i heard a loud bang , at 1st i thought it was burglers and then i thought it was just the wind, me and my bf were lying in bed still didnt know what to do, at the end my bf went down to make sure everything was locked and there were no burglers,now we know what it was lol

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My cat opens wardrobe doors.
I had to change the ring style drawer handles on my bedroom suite- he was using them like doorknockers.

I once had a fridge which he had learned how to open.

So I wasn't surprised when I thought he had learned how to shake the headboard. :)

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just arose, paris babbling on about some earthquake, cashy saying bull****, then logging on here, obviously aint bull****.never heard/felt a thing.:D

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Well it certainly moved for me here in blackpool. wondered what the hell was happening, my dog were going potty then my big yucca plant were shaking then all my furniture started to shake ... got a wierd feeling though really strange .
Cant belive my daughter slept through it cus it wake my lad up .

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It woke Harry up, he thought it was hilarious, cause he thought it was a game!! It has a lot to answer for though. It took ages for me to get him back to sleep!!!

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my friend sent me a msn message saying he got woken up by things shaking and vibrations

i hadnt noticed a thing and asked if he had fallen asleep on his wifes vibrator again :idunno:

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Never heard or felt a thing - I was in such a blissful sleep cos Stanley had won. The only time last night the earth moved for me last night was when the ref blew for full time & we'd got all 3 points :)

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Well, id just finished watching 4 episodes of 24 and gone to bed when it started. Seriously thought it was someone breaking in after the initial sensation of 'why's my bed moving like im on a boat' had subsided. I spent a good 10 minutes with the aid of a golf club, checking each room (making sure I covered my exits and blind spots and, like any good CTU agent, opening the doors first before entering) for intruders!

Wasnt till this morning that I found out it was an earthquake - had no idea what it was when experiencing it!

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Hope! Never felt a thing.

You could say that I was shaken but not stirred.

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I was woken up by the noise beforehand!!
sounded like faint rumbling thunder, then it got louder and louder, thats when the bed started to shake and the TV, it bloody **** me up i can tell ya....oh and i woke me fella up just to make sure i wasnt imagining it:rolleyes:
daughter was woke up but my son never heard a thing, then again if i hadnt woke thier father up, he would have slept through it too....typical males the pair of em:rolleyes:

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Go on then Mr Predictable will say it.

My wife is a light sleeper,

She sleeps with the light on.


I am a hard sleeper,























I sleep with the window open :rolleyes:

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I`d fell asleep on the setee only to be woken by a rumbling sound and strange sensation at 00.58, thought i was dreaming but when i got up i was staggering about as the whole house was shaking(had`nt had a drink) the wife and kids were totally oblivious to it all.then i heard a loud bang but as it was windy i did`nt think anything of it.I relayed this to my workmate when i got in at 5.30 this morning and he laughed and said i`d been dreaming it was only when Chris Moyles on the radio caught my ear when he mentioned Epicentre that i found out what had actually gone on:eek:

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We got shaking ,but no sound at all. it was spooky when the lamp started moving on its own,,,
I thought i was on most haunted !

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I never felt or heard a thing, I was reading at the approximate time it happened too:rolleyes:

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now if i'd been awake like you Accylass, i'd be worried.:D

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In my sleepy stupor I thought it was just gales outside lol

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You'd be worried if you was awake like me? Why?:p

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:dancedog:Didn't feel a thing ... not a tremble ... Either I'm not that sensitive or I was a little too far from the epicenter.

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well being awake n not seeing,hearing,noticing n earthquake,need i say more.:D:D

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I was awake, all was quiet here i never felt a thing, 1st i knew was from the news this morning

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how could ya not feel it?....lol....the noise was bad enough:eek:

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I was woken by next door's dog howling at about midnight, thought " I hope he's not doing that all night " then I went back to sleep only to be rudely awoken by the bed moving (and not in a good way ;)). I remember thinking "oh that's an earthquake" shortly followed by "don't be daft this is Accy" . I convinced myself I had probably had one of those daft dreams where you wake up with a start, when me and daughter got up bleary eyed at normal time we both said we hadn't slept well !:rolleyes:
Didn't know owt about it till the girls at work mentioned it !:cool:
Experienced one in Spain a few years back but last nights was stronger; can't say that I liked it either,it's the fact that we have no control over these forces of nature that makes them so scary !

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Earthquakes don't usually make any sound that we can hear without amplification. I have been in 2 earthquakes (about the size of last night's) and there was no sound. I wonder what was causing the noise you heard, Panther. Maybe it was a few houses foundations shaking. :eek:

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I heard noises too... like a rumbling

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Was sat in front of the computer and heard a loud rumble thought it was a lorry heading for the house then it seemed like the ceiling and wall in the middle of the house was going to fall down, then seemed to stop and then the chimney started to move - sat with my feet up on the chimney breast as well never moved so fast and then turned the radio off.

By the way told spug and he said it could be the mine workings from huncoat - i said we had no mine workings under this. Oh but they went a long way from huncoat you know. By the way he didnt feel nowt.

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it was a loud rumble, at first i thought it was starting to thunder but it sounded faint, then it got louder and louder as it got nearer, then as you say shillelagh it started to shake:eek:, it was scary....it was the noise that woke me not the shaking

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Been speaking to a chap today who is very well up on earthquakes; he says they do make a noise depending on what type of quake it is, he reckoned we have a some tectonic plates under the Pennines that are like a mini fault line that would move in this kind of quake, that would create the noise. He said some quakes are caused by the earth under the crust turning to liquid !!!??:eek:
But thankfully not here !


ps I certainly heard something but I really couldn't describe it other than a low rumbling noise .

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The British Geological Survey said a second smaller earthquake was recorded at 2.46am. The nearby aftershock measured 1.8 on the Richter Scale.....i never felt that one...thank god!

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When i went into work though 2 people hadnt heard anything - one lives in bash and the other lives in rawtenstall. Another said she was scared the ceiling was going to come down and she was in bed.

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Well I slept through last night's tremors. Didn't hear or feel a thing though I'm told lots of people round here did.

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yeah my dog started barking an all doors an windows shook includin my bed dog must have been on end of it cause she ended up on floor

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I was led in bed trying to get to sleep. Just turned over and got comfy when, the bed started shaking. First I thought it was the dog at the end of the bed. Then all the coat hangers on my wardrobe started vibrating. I Sh!t myself.

I woke Ginger and said " The house is shaking....." he grunted and said " ok " :eek: I went down stairs and checked the house.....then nothing.

Phone started ringing and it was my mate next door but 2, " mel....please tell me your house has just been shaking, I think I'm losing the plot " :D I said " yes.....thank god someone else felt that " So that convinced Ginger.

We put the news on and discovered the culprit. Then gingers phone started ringing.....then text messages.

The weirdest thing I have ever felt. The only thing I can describe it like is, turbulence on a plane. I didn't hear any noise....but that's probably due to my four poster bed being rattled and my wardrobe nearly falling over.

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Never heard or felt a thing. Didn't sleep to well through the night, wonder if the earthquake had anything to do with it.

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I definitely heard a noise, before everything atatred to move, it souded like a heavy wagon going past, I live on a cul de sac so I knew there couldn't have been a wagon going past.

The geographical fault line that passes through this area is the Craven Fault line. If you fo to Clapham (in the Yorkshire Dales), and walk up to Ingleborough Cave, you can actually see the fault line in the rocks. Apparently there are not many places in the world, whee fault lines are actaully visable.

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wow, thats pretty interesting.. will have a loook next time i am up there!
thanx

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I was downstairs. I thought the ceiling was going to fall in. The cat sat up tongue poking out and looked at me in that tone of voice that said what have you done now.
Mick slept through the whole thing.

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I was sat on my friends settee at the time and when I mentioned that I felt things rocking she said it must've just been a train because she never noticed. We didn't even question the train theory until we saw people discussing it on facebook. Rock and roll haha

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I found these Willow:

North Craven Fault and Silurian basement in Malham

The Craven Fault

But I haven't got a clue what i'm looking for, i imagined a big crack in the ground or rocks?!:confused:

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It is a good book;)

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It was exactly the same in our house, Panther. I wondered what the hell was happening. I've never known anything like it....very frightening.

We were only in Skeggy last week. I dread to think what it felt like to those living there, they must have thought a bomb was going off!

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It woke me up in Leeds. In the morning I went to work and the town looked like a war zone. So no change there then.