Earthquake epicentre at Brandy wharf

Hopefully all the UK regulars on here are ok and undamaged.

It's about 20 miles from us ... woke 't missus up, so of course she woke me up, I just told her she was dreaming and it was just a big lorry ... ;)

Woke us up in Rushden.

HOuse shook for a good minute!

On or around Wed, 27 Feb 2008 02:30:04 -0000, "Lee_D" enlightened us thusly:

I slept through it, if it happened here at all.

F*ck me it shook like a good 'un

Big shakeup for us near boston, woke us all up, adrenaline pumping. Mind you, the big trucks rumbling past are nearly as bad, but not so severe, and not as long lasting.

The other half was still up and didn't notice anything. I may well have been alseep by 0056, 0043 was on the clock the last time I looked.

In message , madhatchetman writes

Felt it here in Bletchley, felt just like a truck passing only quieter. That's the second 'quake I've felt in the UK having slept through a 4.8 in California in 1998 - that one was only a few miles away, but the hotel was built on shock-absorbers and I'd had rather a lot of beer that evening :-)

Will

The earth moved for us

Lizzy

..and us here ;-)

I'm glad that was an earthquake - i thought i was going mad!

I spent a good 5 mins peering out of the windows as I thought that somebody had knocked once on my back door really loundly, and something had fallen over outside.

Bit disappointing for an earthquake really :(

I remember a small one which happened when i was a lad playing out in the garden at home. Felt just like the whole world dropped down by about a foot - which is more like it!

I was on the couch watching telly. Heard something go "bump" upstairs and felt the couch do a weird wiggle. That was about it.

I was playing Command and Conquer Zero hour on line against a dude from work (we work shifts!) and thought that the game had suddenly got very realistic :-)

Lee D

I was driving back from work through the middle of London at the time, what with the bumpy roads I think it'd take a bloody tidal wave for me to have noticed anything!

Careful what you wish for! directly or indirectly.

My ex lives in Lincoln, only a few miles from the epicentre near Market Rasen. She says the whole house shook, even the furniture, as if a massive vehicle had passed on the road. All OK for her with no damage - could have been worse.

Well what with having to dodge staggering zombies, a pair of tamborine bashers, mad taxi drivers and the dreaded bendy busses, perhaps it's not such a bad idea. When I got back to the hotel, I said to the hotel receptionist "Is it OK to leave my car there?" only for him to look confused and indicate he didn't understand, I gave up after the third attempt. I went to Marks & Spencers in Brent Cross to buy some cheap shirts and I've never seen such a shabby store or such indifferent, impolite staff.

As you can tell, I love cities ;-)

"Austin Shackles" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

Same here "the sleep of the just" I would say

Derek more paint on me overalls than the boot floor