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Earthquake !
« on: 17 February, 2018, 02:42:57 pm »
Sitting listening to music & my 4th floor flat trembled a bit.  Reports from all over the country


Anyone else feel it ?


https://twitter.com/LastQuake/status/964872997252329474






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Re: Earthquake !
« Reply #1 on: 17 February, 2018, 03:38:21 pm »
Not a quiver in York. The epicentre appears to be the DVLA.
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Re: Earthquake !
« Reply #2 on: 17 February, 2018, 03:40:40 pm »
My eldest daughter just asked me if there had been one here - I didn't feel it.
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Re: Earthquake !
« Reply #3 on: 17 February, 2018, 03:44:51 pm »
Sitting listening to music & my 4th floor flat trembled a bit.  Reports from all over the country


Anyone else feel it ?


https://twitter.com/LastQuake/status/964872997252329474








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Re: Earthquake !
« Reply #4 on: 17 February, 2018, 03:49:56 pm »
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Re: Earthquake !
« Reply #5 on: 17 February, 2018, 04:25:29 pm »
At that time we would have just got into the car in Aberaeron to drive back, so felt nothing.
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Re: Earthquake !
« Reply #6 on: 17 February, 2018, 04:44:28 pm »
Not a quiver in York. The epicentre appears to be the DVLA.

That's because I was a bit miffed they haven't sorted out my licence yet and the letter I received this morning said  I'll have to wait another 2 months.

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Re: Earthquake !
« Reply #7 on: 17 February, 2018, 04:50:04 pm »
Fucksake.  I was riding the trike at the time.  That thing's a non-stop earthquake.   :(

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Re: Earthquake !
« Reply #8 on: 17 February, 2018, 07:57:46 pm »
I'm in the Cheshire Basin, about 20 miles S of Chester and didn't feel it - but I was outside at the time doing a bit of gardening.  Bit disappointed as being a now retired professional geologist 'bagging' earthquakes has been a bit of a hobby.

I felt the Lleyn and Bishops Castle events in 84 and 86, one in St Vincent in 2005 (a 6.4 between St V and Martinique that rattled the windows and you could see the ground waves - a colleague and I exited our villa pretty sharpish once I realised what was happening), and a biggie in Crete in 2015.  Was in bed when that one hit and I told the wife off for jumping about whilst I was trying to read - and she said that she'd not moved, and then I knew what was going on!  We were in a high rise hotel so had to sit tight and hope for the best.  Aftershocks kept waking us all night.

So today's event got away.  Dammit.

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Re: Earthquake !
« Reply #9 on: 17 February, 2018, 08:33:52 pm »
You are in the thoughts and prayers of the people of FurryBootToon at this difficult momment.

Re: Earthquake !
« Reply #10 on: 17 February, 2018, 09:17:53 pm »
The BBC reported the epicentre as being somewhere near Cilybebyll Cwmllynfell , so a mile 6 miles or so from here (assuming they can be that accurate) and 4 miles down. Yes, we felt it. I turned round to see who had sneaked in and shaken my chair. Then a bit of rumbling for a few seconds which sounded as if it was coming from the room next door.

Re: Earthquake !
« Reply #11 on: 18 February, 2018, 10:46:06 am »
Ah San Andreas it is not ( I am glad to say).
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Re: Earthquake !
« Reply #12 on: 18 February, 2018, 03:11:03 pm »
You are in the thoughts and prayers of the people of FurryBootToon at this difficult momment.

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« Reply #13 on: 18 February, 2018, 03:19:40 pm »
You are in the thoughts and prayers of the people of FurryBootToon at this difficult momment.

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Re: Earthquake !
« Reply #14 on: 18 February, 2018, 04:00:12 pm »
My son reports that he felt another shock.  In the small hours of Sunday morning in Birmingham.
Anyone else?

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Re: Earthquake !
« Reply #15 on: 18 February, 2018, 05:55:40 pm »
My son reports that he felt another shock.  In the small hours of Sunday morning in Birmingham.
Anyone else?

I was mostly asleep.

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« Reply #16 on: 18 February, 2018, 05:56:14 pm »
No, I've only ever felt earthquakes in California and Japan (fortunately minor ones, but it's quite a peculiar sensation). We did miss a UK earthquake, but caught the aftermath (made somewhat weirder by the fact we didn't know there'd been a earthquake). We were coming to the end of a hike and emerged into Folkestone, and started to notice odd bits of masonry on the pavement, bits of chimney and walls. A fair amount of minor damage. It wasn't until we got to the offy for a couple of beers for the journey home we discovered there'd been an earthquake (2007 says the internet, blimey it doesn't seem that long ago).

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Re: Earthquake !
« Reply #17 on: 19 February, 2018, 09:49:44 am »
Despite being a lot closer than Andrew C, I didn't feel a thing. Several people here did though – and some of them said other people in the same house or even same room didn't feel it, so it seems some people are more sensitive than others.
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Re: Earthquake !
« Reply #18 on: 19 February, 2018, 10:26:53 am »
I didn't feel it as I was away ooop North.

I did feel one about 15 years ago, it was after midnight and the house shook slightly, with this really weird sensation of the walls looking all wobbly.
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Re: Earthquake !
« Reply #19 on: 19 February, 2018, 10:32:29 am »
I felt it quite strongly whilst at my mother's in Wiltshire on Saturday, so much so I went outside to see if part of the roof had caved in or the chimney breast collapsed.  Everyone thought I was mad when I suggested an earth tremor so was glad to be vindicated when it appeared on the evening national news!
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« Reply #20 on: 19 February, 2018, 01:18:11 pm »
I've only felt/heard one earthquake - it wasn't dramatic at all - very very low rumble bass sound, then glasses jingling on the shelves. Lasted less than 2 minutes. I was alone in the house at the time, I think I was about 13.

After effects were rather serious though; about one third of my parent's house started to part company with the rest. Insurance refused to pay up, due to the non-standard construction (home-cast blocks by the original settlers) and no proof of decent foundations. Dad solved it with railway tracks angled sleepers against the walls, to secondary concrete foundations.
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Re: Earthquake !
« Reply #21 on: 19 February, 2018, 02:04:43 pm »
You are in the thoughts and prayers of the people of FurryBootToon at this difficult momment.

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Re: Earthquake !
« Reply #22 on: 19 February, 2018, 03:49:08 pm »
You are in the thoughts and prayers of the people of FurryBootToon at this difficult momment.

 ;D
It has taken a few moments of interweb research to discover something which has been puzzling me for a while.
And that thing is 'WTF is FurryBootToon' all about?  ;D :thumbsup:

Once you've cracked that one, work on the stage name of the lead singer of the Rezillos.

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Re: Earthquake !
« Reply #23 on: 19 February, 2018, 04:30:02 pm »
Heard a bang followed by 10 seconds of plate rattling from the kitchen cupboards.
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