Shake, Rattle and Roll
Filed under: AnglophiliaAn earthquake hit the U.K., including London and as far as Wales, on Tuesday evening.
With a magnitude of 5.3, it was pretty darn big.
It is thought to be the UK's largest earthquake in the last 25 years.
Hope everyone's okay!
Posted: February 27, 2008 at 12:01 am
For the people saying it's not a big deal, 5 on the richter scale is considered by experts to be high enough to cause damage to buildings, something we aren't prepared for in this part of the world.
We don't expect something like this to happen more than once a decade, tops, so it is newsworthy. The thing happened just hours ago, if you're concerned about it getting undue news coverage, don't be, for God's sake. Anyway, if CNN find it necessary to cover developments in Paris and Britney's lives, they can sodding well give this a mention!
The earthquake had a magnitude of 4.7 and is considered "light" according to CNN, check your facts
5.3 is regarded as large in england.
i don't care what it is regarded as in the US. it happened in the UK.
we hardly ever have them, and as Alice said, we are simply not prepared or used to earthquakes that can damage buildings.
why are people being ignorant??? CNN are wrong. it was a 5.3
Yep, felt it. Woke me up just before 1 am. Felt like a little rumble and a bit of noise. Not very many injuries though - just minor ones from crumbling chimneys. How weird though - I am from Chicago and never thought I would experience an earthquake over in the UK!
(I live in the UK) It woke me up at 1am, everything on my dressing table was rattling. Had watched Most Haunted that evening so thought it was something to do with ghosts, not an earthquake. Relieved to find out the real cause when I watched the news this morning!
Pffft.
It was hadly nothing.
I thhink an old mans leg got injured and a couple of chimmys cracked.
Didnt even reach me down in Portsmouth.
How boring.
I was asleep anyways.
I slept right through it lol O.o
Scared my mum a bit though haha.
Re: SAVE RACHEL: How about some personal responsibility? Don't buy things you cannot afford, don't use credit cards! Is just that simple. There are millions of people in need, children are dying from hunger. Rachel, please tell me why should I help you?
there are other places in the UK apart from London, in fact the epicentre was in Lincolnshire where bits of peoples houses are dropping off…
omg i live in london adn i've just woken up for school and i didnt even realise! shiiit
I felt it @ 1:00am in manchester, my bed was shaking really badly i thought it was going to break
i slept through it. o.O
I'm in Cheshire,UK and it woke me up haha. I didn't know what the heck was happening,i thought a ghost was shaking my bed!
Apparently there are very few injuries. Some poor kid had a chimney fall on him though.
Alice I completley understand you are not used to earthquakes there and understand why it made the news. Those familiar with earthquakes know that the magnitude is often (almost always) changed a few hours after the event ad data is analyzed.
It currently has been downgraded and classified a 4.7 after geologist review. It is also very common for news media to continue to report the higher (original) number. Sadly, it profits the media. You can check out the USGS earthquake site and see for youself. I tried posting all this earlier but the comment never appeared and I'm wondering if it's because I posted the link. I shall try again, hope it doesn't double post.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2008nyae.php
However, Japan had an earthquake just minutes ago that was 6.4. You can see that at the same site. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2008nya6.php
Oh, come on. That was a wussy quake.
I felt it in St Johns Wood. As a San Francisco native, I was shocked to feel an earthquake in London.
Thanx Missy, we are fine!London didn't get too badly effected!
i felt the tremor, i thought someone was shaking by bed! (i live in london)
It was scary shizzle….we never get quakes here!!
OMG I FELT IT!!! it was soo wierd, i've never felt an earthquake before. I live in Buckinghamshire, not linconshire, so it was 5.2 where I was, but i was just going to bed and i heard my computer start creaking. I was really freaked out as I thought someone was standing there, but then everything else started skaking too! I thought part of my house had fallen in, I only realised after, what it was!
lol Perez at reporting this!
Re: Disturbed –
4.7 was the original number from the US Geographical Survey. But then the British Geographical Surver upgraded it to a 5.3. It was a 5.3 quake. Official. American news media are wrong because they are reporting the US Geographical Survey data which was released about 30 minutes after the quake. The British data came roughly an hour later.
Oops - *wasn't 5.2
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7266136.stm
BBC reports 5.3 using the UK data.
Hey perez, love ya!!!
I live in sheffield (yorkshire) my mum and dad felt it and apparently it lasted for about 10secs where we live. Me, my bro, my sis and my lil puppy slept right throught it :S If it was a really big one and dangerous next time, i hope i would wake up!
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it was a 5.2 on the richter scale i was 15 miles from the center :O
Heh. I live in SF and that's nothing! lol
But I guess it's a big deal for a place that never gets many.
I woke up at 1am and my whole flat was shaking and a loud rumbling. This is England…we don't get shit like that here. I was petrified. It's not huge on a world scale but it was pretty darn big for the UK. It's been graded as 5.3 by the British meterological society. It was mainly Northern England that was affected. My brother is in London and he only felt a slight termor whereas in Manchester where I am it was really scary. My whole building shook….i've had no sleep all night. I am worried about aftershocks.
I'm so relieved to read this. Me and my sister woke up and I thought it was because there was an intruder in the house! I couldn't sleep!
I live in London and didn't even feel it - no reports of injuries. Thanks for everyone's concern!
hi perez , the earthquake happened only a few miles from me , bulidings are damaged cos alot of them are really old and a main road through town is closed but nobody got hurt here. A guy a few miles away had to go to hospital because his roof collapsed on him.
Theyre saying on the BBC that it was felt in holland !
Re: TONYA PERRY –
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Lol it wasn't a tsunami I'm in London and didn't feel a thing, blame GLOBAL WARMING!!! if only al gore had been in power over bush something would have started to have been done about it!!
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Re: Fangoria – Re: jhair –
BUT NOT IN THE UK IT DOESN'T!
Suggests were all f*cked basically, so stop whining and accept were all in on this downfall of global warming
yeaah i live in Wales and it definately didnt reach us, just north,mid and south england.
And apparently its got nothing to do with global warming.
Huh?! This is the first I've heard of it! I was awake at the time the "earthquake" struck but i never felt a thing. Ha.
I'm from California and I am staying over here for a couple of weeks. I never thought i'd ever experience a quake in the UK. Have to say that I am used to earthquakes and I put it at 5.0 at least from my experience. I would say 5.3 sounds about right. Man, these quakes seem to be following me.
Re: hjksh – Also, another thing hjksh - the US geological offices that have it classified as a 4.7 use senors in the Earth all over the world. That does not mean that someone sitting in a geology office in the US decided it was a 4.7, that means the data from sensors in Europe have determined it to be a 4.7, but your media, as well as media around the world will continue reporting it as a 5.3. This is how it works. This is normal. You are not familiar with it. I'm sorry, but it is true.
I didn't notice anything.
holy shit that was fuckin scary…everything fell and shook omg i hope it never happends again
How funny! I didn't think they would happen in the U.K, of all places. I was kind of hoping I would move there and I would leave that behind. I've lived in an seismic zone all of my life.
Re: Disturbed –
Yes, thank you. I'm not a complete retard. Don't presume me to be. I know they have sensors the world over. But it makes sense for British media to use data from a British source.
OK SO I KNOW IT DOESNT SEEN LIKE A BIG THING BUT WE ARE NOT USED TO THIS KINDA THING SO IT FREAKED A LOT OF PPL OUT….UM NOT MNE I SLEPT THROUGH IT ALL HAHA
I DONT KNOW HOW OTHER COUNTRYS COPE THERE AWFUL…SO IM TOLD BUT THERE IS NO WAKIN ME ONCE IM ASLEEP
Re: hjksh – Well if you are not a complete retard why is the European agency downgrading it to a 4.9? Just saying. No reason to be a snot about it.
Actually Perez, I was about 10 miles from the epicentre (Market Rasen in Lincolnshire for those in the uk), and it was quite scary, but no worse than a fairground ride.
Theres a facebook group and a tshirt on EBAY already…xx
I live just outside if London, and I didn't even realise that there was an earthquake.
I only know because it was on the news.
Disturbed - why are you trying to show your intellectual superiority on a celebrity gossip site???? LOLLLLLLLLLLL "I know about this stuff and you don't" LOL
OMG I DIDN'T EVEN FEEL IT. I SPLEPT LIKE A BABY.
it started a few miles away from my hosue. It's something i've never experenced before and I was freaked out… but all is good, nothing is broken or damaged and people are safe.
as for the spilling tea comment… my neighbour (and boss) did spill his cuppa last ight during the 'quake…
Re: Disturbed –
"a snot"? Erm… honey the only person acting like that here is you.
We're in Nottingham (y'know Robin Hood country) in the middle of England and we felt it!
Pictures fell of the walls but nothing else happened….but 5.3 is pretty big for the UK and the centre was in Lincolnshire…..
Americans ignorance of Geography outside their own country is laughable!
It was mental. Thought it was poltergeist for the first couple of seconds lmao!
EQs are no fun at all!
I hope everyone in the UK is ok.
lol @ #2 !
Just to let everyone know that most of the people here in London did not even feel the earthquake and I was quite surprised when I read that its magnitude was 5.3! Everyone is fine, there were no damages reported and thank you to all of you for your concern.
It was 4.7 perez. There were no damages reported.I experienced it and it wasnt that big at all. Yes my house shook but everythngs just so hyped up here.
i live in london and i didn't feel a thing?
Did this actually happen?
Re: hjksh – Did you think of that comeback all by yourself? It's not me, it's you…. LMAO
the centre of it was about 15 miles from my house and it was scary as we very rarely have earthquakes here and it was in the middle of the night…thought i was dreaming!
lol, most people didn't even notice it happened
God people really know how to exaggerate. I slept rite thru it!!! Trust me it was NOTHING people just love a drama!!!
Ummm … I live in London and there was no earthquake last night that I felt …..?!
First earthquake for me….I was just getting to bed and the house started to shake, thought it was just my brain from not getting enough sleep lol! But yeh, very unexpected, I don't think there have been many earthquakes here in London
people saying it was nothing, i live about 15 minutes from the epicentre….trust me, it wasn't nothing!!!! everyone felt it up here. don't dismiss it just because it didn't happen in london or down south
Wasn't just London - pretty much the whole country felt it, including myself in Yorkshire. That said, it was only 5.3 at the epicenter, just got shaken about a bit. Had worse in rough sex…
Yeah. It woke all my housemates up. I've never experienced an earthquake before so it was quite unnerving . Funny thing is we were watching War of the Worlds before going to sleep and first thing which came into mind were those aliens which come out from the ground lol. But it wasn't really that bad, no casualties and no damage to buildings.
As Far As Everyone Knows, Everyone Is Dandy.
Not Many People Knew About It As It Was 3am.
xoxo
I live in the UK and felt the aftershock just before midnight and i live much further north than London and Wales. It was rather odd!!!
Oh, so that's what that was! I though it was the effects of a large lorry tumbling past my flat!
are you serious? in new zealand, this would be a NOTHING, i.e. not even reported, let alone make a national website. you guys need to come to new zealand and check out a REAL earthquake
My bed started shaking at lot!! And the windows thought i was a little crazy until i heard it was an earthquake! x
eh, i didn't feel anything.
Re: ascnobg –
Dude, in New Zealand, you expect an earthquake. In quiet, little old England, you expect nothing but rain. We aren't suppose to shake about, it's quite unseemly…
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Oh my god i thought my house was falling down, never had something like that happen to me before, really scary stuff especailly at 1am not expected!!!!
Ooohh.. so that's what it was lol
I thought i was goin crazy last night when my bed started moving haha
It was pretty windy here and i live in a tall building.. just thought it was that.
I live in Middlesbro Perez and we felt it.
Twas freaking shit
I live in Middlesbro Perez and we felt it.
Twas freaking shit
I felt the earthquake in London- I jumped out of bed- coz the bed was shaking!!
We're fine thanks Perez, and everyone who was concerned.
I thought it was someone having sex in the room next door!!
Re: Sophie –
I'm in Middlesbrough too!
I'M A LONDONER AND DIDN'T FEEL THE EARTHQUAKE. EVERYTHING IS OVER-EXAGGERATED IN THIS COUNTRY. AS STATED ON BBC BREAKFAST THIS MORNING, IT WAS A 'VERY BRITISH EARTHQUAKE'.
where was i??..there aint no earth quake here!!!!
knew nothing about it!!!
mind you
that's not the first time i've snoozed
while the earth apparently moved!!
I live in London and didnt feel a thing! But in other news theres a bunch of fools on top of Parliament protesting a 3rd runway at Heathrow. I can see them waving outside my window at work!
So.. I live in the West Midlands in England which is pretty much smack bang dab in the middle of the country for all you 'Oh, I'm from Buckinghamshire *turns nose up*'
Don't know exactly where the 'epicentre' was as of yet but I didn't have to feel it, I saw it to the extent of my bed rocking back and forth and having a picture frame fall ontop of my head.
See, if I were in Cali, I'd know that it would be daft to have a picture nailed above you in bed due to the fact you get earthquakes there.
I missed it!
Cant believe I slept through it! x
It's because the Spice Girls played their last concert yesterday. :[
They where heard ’round the world.
But I do truly hope everyone is OK!
It woke me up. I turned my light on the the whole room was shaking. I didn't know it was an earthquake until my dad told me this morning. I've never experienced anything like that before.
the thing woke me up at 1 this morning!
i thought it was just strong wind….ooops?
this was in the north east, thats how far it went!
Felt the quake in Oxford… no damage in the area. It must be Britain's way of saying WE WANT YOU BACK, PEREZ!!!
i was totaly tuckd up in my bed watching a movie with matt damon in so i was darn comfy,my daughter had been placed to bed many hours before when at around 1am maybe a tadge later the whole house started to tremmor…then it got really rocky and things were flying from my shelves and i just didnt think it could ever be an earth quake here in the uk….to be honest i kinda thought it was an aeroplane flying real low as the rumble and shuddering was heavy.anyways it lasted 10 t0 15 seconds at the most so we are all really luky in the uk as other countries go through worse often.lets just say everyone is talking about it…i live in lincolnshire where it was one of the worst hit areas and so far theres been one person injured and a few chimneys have fallen.everyone is" A "okay.
it woke me up im all the way up in liverpool
i thought it was a ghost shaking me i shit myself and hit under the covers lol
we dont get earthquakes how was i to know hahaha
yea we're fine ppl, one person was injured though, but he should be okay. xoxo
Everyone was fine, only one person was injured, because a chimney fell on them. I was asleep, but earlier on yesterday the winds were quite strong!
Funny tea joke from Good For Them. I'm from the U.K and don't drink tea, eugh!
Re: Alice in Manchester, UK –
Get ready for a whole lot more of them. The world is about to bust apart. Maybe it will swallow up Madonna, the devil's whore.
I thought my bloody house was going to fall down! Not fun!! No damage was caused tho thank god!
I live in North London and was up when it happened. It was about 1 am here and it lasted for about 5-10 seconds. Being quite a bit away from the epicentre, we only felt a rumble in comparison to what others closer felt. It was probably a 4.7 as measured plus it was comparable to the previous one in 2002. My husband was in bed and he woke up from the shaking.
At first I thought I was getting the shakes! Then things on my shelf started to shake fromt the vibrations. It felt as if we were living right next to train tracks and a fast train passed by.
hi im from United Kingdom i was awake at the time and i didn't notice it
lmao ;>
Yes I think someone fell out of bed and hurt their elbow -
Slooooow news day
There is more to the UK than London you know:P…the epicentre was actually in Lincolnshire and was felt as far north as Newcastle (I'm in Durham at the moment…)…which is further than Wales from London!Tut.
It isn't that huge a deal, a bit scary but kind of exciting!
Hi Guys,
Apart from a 19 yr old in Barnsley (south Yorkshire - my old town no less) who suffered a broken pelvis whilst he was laid in bed - BUMMER- everyone is fine.
"With a magnitude of 5.3, it was pretty darn big." Perez is right in saying that, al you lot who say it's nothing should then again think to the fact that the UK never experiences Earthquakes, so to us UK Peeps, this is pretty darn big for us. Think about it…
I felt it last night, i thought my boyfriend was shaking the bed to try & keep me awake!!!