Earthquake in England.

Terry

Link one.

Millions of people were shaken from their beds last night as Britain was rocked by the biggest earthquake to hit the country for 10 years.
Damage caused by earthquake
Damage caused by earthquake

Hundreds of terrified people fled their apartments in Birmingham tower blocks and police received over 5,000 calls within an hour from people reporting shaking walls and windows.

One elderly woman collapsed in shock and was taken to hospital for treatment after the tremor at 12.54am, which measured 4.8 on the Richter Scale.

Broken glass

Just two cases of people suffering minor injuries through broken glass have been reported, but no-one was seriously injured.

At the epicentre, the West Midland town of Dudley, people ran into the streets still wearing their pyjamas to find out what had happened.

Hundreds of thousands of people feared for their safety as the noise and the rumbling made them think their home was under threat or a bomb had exploded.
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Ripples were felt across Wales and the West Country and as far south as London and a series of small after shocks were felt through the night.

Emergency workers

Emergency services were deluged with a massive 600 calls to 999 and emergency workers spent the night reassuring residents it is safe for them to return home.

Allison Jones, of Rhuddlan in north Wales, told Sky News: "I ran outside and looked around to see if any other neighbours would have come out of the house, but all you could hear were dogs barking.

"The walls of the house seemed to shake - I thought a plane had crashed nearby or something horrible was about to happen to the world."

Stephen Swan, from Wandsworth in south London, said: "We thought it was an explosion at first but then we didn't hear any noise afterwards."

Link two.

xOxSinéadxOx

you could have replied in my thread!

FunkZ

I suppose it's about time something happened to them!

Terry

xOxSinéadxOx wrote: »

you could have replied in my thread!

Blatant abuse of power.

Xavi6

Crazy stuff altogether. Be interesting to hear how it came about

orestes

Bin Laden did it

There are a large number of minor fault lines running under the British isles, also the south is sinking & the north is rising - sometimes they dissagree as to where the pivit point is and have a shake!!

Anyway it's a good way to find out how good the pointing is in your chimney

AntiRip

Is Britain prone to earthquakes as they also had a few in the past? I remember an outtake from Coronation Street when there was an earthquake in the middle of a scene.

doonothing

Ah tits! !I was in London til last night, woulda loved to have felt it..

Xavi6

AntiRip wrote: »

Is Britain prone to earthquakes as they also had a few in the past? I remember an outtake from Coronation Street when there was an earthquake in the middle of a scene.

Yes cause everything that happens in Corporation Street mirrors real life....

AlmightyCushion

Xavi6 wrote: »

Yes cause everything that happens in Corporation Street mirrors real life....

I think he meant they were filming and there was an actual earthquake not that it was scripted. I may be wrong though.

Xavi6

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

I think he meant they were filming and there was an actual earthquake not that it was scripted. I may be wrong though.

I know what he meant, just trying to make a fool of him but you went and ruined it. Damn you!

frodo_dcu

I just blogged this from London for anyone interested in the time-line of news events.

Earthquake in England - Live .:. Weeno Blog .:. Weeno Ireland Ltd

xOxSinéadxOx

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7266136.stm

And how many lovers used the phrase "did the earth move for you"

xOxSinéadxOx

frodo_dcu wrote: »

I just blogged this from London for anyone interested in the time-line of news events.

Earthquake in England - Live .:. Weeno Blog .:. Weeno Ireland Ltd

that's the interweb for ya!

AntiRip

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

I think he meant they were filming and there was an actual earthquake not that it was scripted. I may be wrong though.

You were right thats what I meant.

Xavi6 wrote:

I know what he meant, just trying to make a fool of him but you went and ruined it.

Make a fool of me, thanks.

Xavi6

AntiRip wrote: »

Make a fool of me, thanks.

Happy to oblige

AntiRip

AntiRip wrote: »

Is Britain prone to earthquakes as they also had a few in the past? I remember an outtake from Coronation Street when there was an earthquake in the middle of a scene.

I can just imagine the cardboard walls wobbling all over the place...

KamiKazi

haha, was on ventrilo with my clan (mainly uk) when this happened.

Was pretty funny hearing them all go "Oh my god, what the hell was that" at the same time :D

AlmightyCushion

Xavi6 wrote: »

I know what he meant, just trying to make a fool of him but you went and ruined it. Damn you!

Oooopsy.

X marks the spot! http://www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/recent_events/uk_special/market_rasen_27_feb_2008.pdf

Pherekydes

Xavi6 wrote: »

Crazy stuff altogether. Be interesting to hear how it came about

It was de gheys!

Or maybe it was that stuff going on in the Trinners lab that also caused that building collapse. Never know what those Trinners types get up to in their labs.

Dave!

There's a tsunami coming across the Irish Sea! :eek: LEGGIH!!!

whatsgoinon

I live on the east coast of england, and last night was one of the scariest nights i have ever had in my life (and I thought last saturday night in a nightclub full of scallys and chavs was bad). I felt a minor tremor first, but thought that my chinese housemates had set the place on fire, then the main tremor came, not only was the whole house shaking, windows rattling, stuff falling off the desk, i was shaken too! my head was all fuzzy after. One of the lads came running up to tell me, argh, I always sleep in the nip, so had to throw on some clothes stat, everyone was out on the street and car alarms were going off all over the place. The japanese girl i live with, was like whats all the fuss about!
hope never to experience that again

Curse this seismically inactive island.

Dave!

aye, so boring lol

Canis Lupus

Well I'm in London and slept through it which has me a little bummed.

ScumLord

I reckon Mary Harneys new exercise regime is to blame.

Dave!

LOL @ ScumLord's naive belief that Harney does any exercise!

You crack me up sometimes!

danniemcq

Myth wrote: »

Curse this seismically inactive island.

WTF are you on about Donegal got rocked by one last week!

ScumLord

DaveMcG wrote: »

LOL @ ScumLord's naive belief that Harney does any exercise!

You crack me up sometimes!

She must be, I'd say she's lost at least a tone and a half over the past month.

Dave!

That brings her down to, what, 15 tonnes, is it?

Pherekydes

But wouldn't Harney's activity act as a dampener, smoothing out any seismic activity? Anyway, her exercise would be felt on the southside of Dublin, wouldn't it? Hey, maybe that building collapse in Pearse St...

Dave!

As a side note, recent scientific research suggests that, rather than the sea-level rising, as was previously believed, land is actually being pushed downwards and being submerged as a result of a process called harnification.

Flukey

No one else in this thread seems to have done so, but I definitely felt the earthquake here in Dublin. It was felt as far away from the epicentre as Scotland, and Dublin is nearer. It was very minor here, just a minor tremor, but as I was in bed at that time rather than up and about, I did feel it. I remember the one we had here in 1984 and there was one in Malawi in November when I was there, so I've felt them before. I suspected it was an earthquake and it was confirmed when I heard the news this morning. I felt it around 1am, which is when it happened. Without all the usual lame "the earth moved for me and my girlfriend" type of quips, didn't anyone else genuinely feel it?

the_syco

whatsgoinon wrote: »

The japanese girl i live with, was like whats all the fuss about!

Ah, she's probably used to "the ground shaking for her" :cool:

Rabies

Pffft.

Been there, done that.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055057308

Blisterman

Slept right through it.

Jim

Felt it here in the Midlands myself. Whole house started shaking along with a rumbling sound. Thought someone was trying to break in upstairs. Was pretty freaky...

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FunkZ wrote: »

I suppose it's about time something happened to them!

The irony of this statement from a person with a fúck off Liverpool crest in their sig.

You DO realise Liverpool is in England, right?

"hate dem brits I do, ah bu' I bleedin' luvvvv de pewl and Keltik".

Latchy

We felt it here in Liverpool last night .I was shaking on my pc chair and thought i was having a fit :eek:

Sherifu

I'm shaken by this news.

/gets coat

Latchy

My first time and hopfully my last earthquake expierence , ya havent lived until ya bin tru a quake .....:D

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Is it true that it's connected with the recept spate of homosexual activity in Humber?!

Neamhshuntasach

I felt quakes in California and central America. The Cali ones were little minor ones that you'd barely notice until you hear about it on the news. But the one in Costa Rica was one of the biggest WTF situations in my life. Got thrown out of the bed and all

grames_bond

orestes wrote: »

Bin Laden did it

no it wasnt....dont be so rediculous. it was global warming, someone call al gore!!

OPENROAD

Flukey wrote: »

No one else in this thread seems to have done so, but I definitely felt the earthquake here in Dublin. It was felt as far away from the epicentre as Scotland, and Dublin is nearer. It was very minor here, just a minor tremor, but as I was in bed at that time rather than up and about, I did feel it. I remember the one we had here in 1984 and there was one in Malawi in November when I was there, so I've felt them before. I suspected it was an earthquake and it was confirmed when I heard the news this morning. I felt it around 1am, which is when it happened. Without all the usual lame "the earth moved for me and my girlfriend" type of quips, didn't anyone else genuinely feel it?

I was up at the time and felt nothing, what part of Dublin.

Fratton Fred

OPENROAD wrote: »

I was up at the time and felt nothing, what part of Dublin.

Kilburn

OPENROAD

Fratton Fred wrote: »

Kilburn

is it still that bad, remember drove through there a few years ago, like a ghetto