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 :o :o :o has anybody else just felt a tremor? we are just outside selby and I felt three big jolts and thats in a building four hundred years old :'(

Yes. For a moment I thought the wife had got up and was running across the bedroom, then the larger tremor hit. Took me ages to calm our dog down. My guess is that it was around the same scale as Kent had in April, pushing 4 on the Richter scale.

thanks  don't know about the dog I'am work took me ages to calm wife over the phone ::)

Missed it - here in Surrey ??????

They are talking about it on the radio !

I just realised I may have inadvertantly suggested my wife running across the bedroom would seem like an earthquake. Not quite what I meant.

Definitely felt it here in Oldham. The whole house shook and I'm still shaking now!!!Thank God For the message boards and radio 2 or I would have thought I was going loopy  ;D

Quotesuggested my wife running across the bedroom would seem like an earthquake.

Thats funny :-)

Magnitude 4.7
Date-Time Wednesday, February 27, 2008 at 00:56:45 UTC
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 at 12:56:45 AM at epicenter

Location 53.321°N, 0.314°W
Depth 10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program
Region ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM
Distances 50 km (30 miles) S of Kingston upon Hull, England, UK
70 km (45 miles) NE of Nottingham, England, UK
80 km (50 miles) E of Sheffield, England, UK
205 km (125 miles) N of LONDON, United Kingdom

Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 6.8 km (4.2 miles); depth fixed by location program
Parameters NST= 50, Nph= 50, Dmin=291.4 km, Rmss=1.02 sec, Gp= 54°,
M-type=body magnitude (Mb), Version=7
Source USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)


Event ID us2008nyae

It woke me up   :o and I have been trying to get back to sleep for the last hour, given up now.

Liked the bit about the wife running across the bedroom my OH said much the same thing........he's recovering  ;D

Didn't take long for the newspapers to blow it out of proportion.

QuoteIt is thought to have been the biggest earthquake to have struck the UK in years.

Emergency services across the country were flooded with calls from worried residents.

Stunned Mark Young said he looked out of his window and saw an EIGHT FOOT crack in his neighbour's garden at LEICESTER.

He said: "There was a big crack through the ground and there was smoke and flames coming out. It was spitting things out.

"It is about eight foot long and about two foot wide. I was completely shocked."

Quote taken from the Sun unsurprisingly.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article851350.ece

I'll have to ring my mum and dad in the morning - they live in Leicester! Perhaps Old John has fallen down.  ::)

Felt it in York. :o Woke myself and daughter. boyfriend and sons slept through it(typical) ::).Hope nobody has been hurt.
Debs  :)

Hope everyone is ok.   :o
There is not enough growing to cause root shock I hope!

Took me a few minutes to work out what had happened, but felt it here in South cheshire.  That's the third one since moving here!

Gosh I must of been tired, slept through it lol :D

wondered what it was, too tied so went back to sleep  ;D
hope those nearer are okay..
that quote's classic, baccyman..wonder what he was taking ?  ;D

Felt it strongly in Gloucester, I was asleep and it woke me, the room was shaking gently. In my half awake state I did realise that it was an earthquake and was very relaxed about it and fell straight back to sleep, not sure I would have been so calm if I had been fully awake, it did seem quite strong.  :o

I woke up with it too.

Got several panes of glass from freecycle last week which were stacked up in the passageway outside the house. None have fallen over (phew)

Becky

Didn't feel it here, but my mother in south Lincolnshire woke up to a shaking bed.
5.3 on the Richter Scale - epicentre was near Market Rasen.

the epicentre was just south of Grimsby. Apparently it caused thousands of £s of improvements