Irish Earthquake???

Calibos

Did anyone else feel the earth move at 4:17am??

I'm in Bray and while I can feel very slight vibration when in bed when trains pass 100 yards away, the house rattled and vibrated big time a few minutes ago much more then ever before and theres never trains at this hour anyway.

IceFjoem

Holy sh*t! I felt it too in Stillorgan, didn't know what that was!

markc91

Calibos wrote: »

Did anyone else feel the earth move at 4:17am??

I'm in Bray and while I can feel very slight vibration when in bed when trains pass 100 yards away, the house rattled and vibrated big time a few minutes ago much more then ever before and theres never trains at this hour anyway.

My room shook for a few seconds here in Donaghmede!!!!

foxinsox

Something funny happened..

Enough to wake me up, I actually thought someone had bashed the window.

Calibos

Confirmed on Twitter!!

Calibos

http://quakes.globalincidentmap.com/

5.5 on the richter scale in Wales. Feckin hell!!

-=al=-

Wow the shutters on the window here in rathmines rattled as I nodded off there! Thought it was a draft but no wind... Was kind of eerie but cool!

IvySlayer

I thought I felt something, very very faint though, assumed it was a truck or something going by. I do live in West Dublin though.

foxinsox

Calibos wrote: »

http://quakes.globalincidentmap.com/

5.5 on the richter scale in Wales. Feckin hell!!

Now is no time to make jokes about the earth moving ;-)

A fecking earthquake!


In Ireland?

jaysus..

debabyjesus

Whole house shook in rush! For about 3 seconds

Calibos

I think Woodies are going to have a rush on pollyfilla tomorrow

IceFjoem

No chance of a wave is there?

shedweller

Awesome! Something interesting to follow!
I worked with a lad in nz and he joked that he wouldn't get out of bed for anything less than a 6.

Still though, a 5.5 that close is something special!

Shifty11

I just thought it was a massive gust of wind. Only lasted for a second!

Calibos

That website has downgraded it to a 4.6 now.

The 10 cm high Tsunami should arrive on our shores from Anglesey in Wales any minute now

smcgiff

IceFjoem wrote: »

No chance of a wave is there?

HELLO!

But, no chance of tidal wave.

I didn't feel anything, would have been dozing. Feel like I've missed out. Staying in Fairview north dublin.

shedweller

http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/europe/
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=319429
And hopefully an image:

http://static2.emsc.eu/Images/map_zoom/WEBMAPS/24H/TEUROMED.24hours.jpg?dt=1369799253

debabyjesus

IceFjoem wrote: »

No chance of a wave is there?

Hope not. My front yard is practically the beach.

Well we're not earthquake virgins anymore... Sleeping is for losers

IceFjoem

smcgiff wrote: »

HELLO!

But, no chance of tidal wave.

That's good anyway!

Howdy!

Full.Duck

NO WAY

Calibos

debabyjesus wrote: »

Hope not. My front yard is practically the beach.

Well we're not earthquake virgins anymore... Sleeping is for losers

I wasn't a Virgin. I was awake for the 3 am'er in '02 !!

Festy

Something to tell the grandchildra in 40 years time.

Washington Irving

I didn't feel anything here in the west. What a rip off.

Cookie_Monster

Just need a volcano now to complete the set.

Karl Stein

It was probably just a Chinese Lantern.

shruikan2553

Nothing felt in Galway

sovereign121

Sky news reporting it as a 3.8 on llyn peninsula in north wales

Fr_Dougal

The Government have issued a statement denying that any earthquake took place in Ireland last night and that we are on the road to a full recovery.

YbFocus

Kildare/Laois/Offaly border here and never felt a thing, really feel like I've missed out! P*ssed off actually

Quakewatch shows two, at 1am a 3.8 on the coast of Wales at 8 km down, and at 4.15 a 4.3 scale at 10km depth out in the Irish Sea 2/3 the way between Wicklow and Morfa Nefyn.

Autonomous Cowherd

How unusual is this? Anywhere I could look up past stats? Any connection to fracking? Very interesting.............epicentre supposed to be 90km from Dublin

Agent Smith

We will rebuild...

Gosub

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

The Government have issued a statement denying that any earthquake took place in Ireland last night and that we are on the road to a full recovery.

I think you'll find it was the fault of the previous FF government.

dr ro

how can the government get money out of us because of this?

El Horseboxo

dr ro wrote: »

how can the government get money out of us because of this?

Introduce bear tax. The earthquakes keep them away.

YbFocus

dr ro wrote: »

how can the government get money out of us because of this?

Earthquake suppression and avoidance tax only €199 year. Pay before August 31.

yam123

I felt it in balbriggan

GhostInTheRuins

How does an earthquake happen in the Irish Sea? I didn't think there were any fault lines even remotely near us.

I didn't feel it

Full.Duck

El Horseboxo wrote: »

Introduce bear tax. The earthquakes keep them away.

Let the bears pay the bear tax, i pay the Homer tax.

kneemos

yam123 wrote: »

I felt it in balbriggan

What you get up to in Balbriggin is you're own bussiness.

hardCopy

I was woken someone after 4. Don't remember shaking though. 4th floor apartment in Cabra here.

kneemos

Looks like there's quite a few survivors in the Dublin area.

smcgiff

Calibos wrote: »

I wasn't a Virgin. I was awake for the 3 am'er in '02 !!

Er, if you didn't feel it are you still a Virgin?

Davidth88

Our 2 YO woke up screaming at exactly that time ........ must have felt it weird eh !

fergiesfolly

I'm not paying a bloody earthquake tax. I'll get nothing for it. Typical FG expecting me to pay for a service that's only available to the jackeens.

foxinsox

kneemos wrote: »

Looks like there's quite a few survivors in the Dublin area.

Fair few survivors in the sunny south east too!

B.A._Baracus

I was fast alseep
I woke up a few times in the night. Don't think it was around 4.17am tho

whhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhy

Davidth88

Bet ya there is a levy put onto insurance to cover the loses


:-)

Sam Kade

I live near a quarry every time they blast a bit of it the house rumbles, probably makes more of an impact than a 4.6 earthquake.

Fratton Fred

Hundreds of people buried in Glasnevin apparently.

Rescue teams have so far recovered 52 bodies but expect that number to increase as digging continues through the day.

kneemos

Fratton Fred wrote: »

Hundreds of people buried in Glasnevin apparently.

Rescue teams have so far recovered 52 bodies but expect that number to increase as digging continues through the day.

They'll be unrecognisable I fear.