earthquake

[Ray Gabriel]

Cheers Gemma. *hugs* Ahhh well, at least the others are okay...but I'm getting pics when daylight comes...the path round my house is cracked through and lifted over an inch!

WOW my beer glass moved, it was in Kingston upon Hill at around 12:56 am and Swindon around 1:01 couple of hundred miles in 5 mins.

Ray

[Louise~Nichols]

It first hit me at 12.57 according to my computer's clock anyhow...then there was ongoing humming...a really odd buzzing sensation...it was just the whole feeling of the house heaving and twisting against itself, and my shelves went kamikaze...ick...not my kind of party!!

[Andrew Ferguson]

Here in S****horpe we felt it big time. The house shook for ages and I was genuinly scared. Turns out we weren't that far from the epicentre which is beleived to be Market Rasen which is just outside Lincoln.

The tarantula is ok though. Sorry to hear your news Louise

[mary walters]

It hit us in MK at 12.58am, rattled Trevs bed and wardrobes, something woke me at that time and again at just after 4am.

[James Box]

just crazy, i was speaking to Louise at the time it hit! i felt nothing at all...i'm in London, but apparently didn't reach that far. some are claiming it did, but i was actually awake and not a tremor.

Louise i can't tell you how sorry i am for your losses! let me know which ones
*hugs*

i've felt quake or two back in Canada...Victoria BC is near a fault line, and they've been predicting a "big one" for ages...the tremor that i felt most occured while i was at uni... the whole place cleared but for a few classes, including mine! the professor kept talking lol!

[Phil Rea]

Didn't feel it in Wales, but spookily both my dogs started barking their heads off for no apparent reason around the time it happened.

[Louise~Nichols]

Thanks Andrew...it was certainly a rocky night. I'm only 35 miles from the epicenter in a southerly direction!

James, thanks...I can't even remember half of what I said at the time (and most of it probably turned the air blue!)...just that it was a huge shock. On the losses...not good. I reckon I just got kicked up the backside for being smug!

My dog however...slept through it...so much for being sensitive!!

[Traci Barker]

Sorry to hear you lost some of your Ts to it Louise ...

We live not to far away from the epicentre in Lincs, but also close to a air bace so my other halfs first gut reaction was that a jet had come down.
Our house's were old RAF houses in the middle of nowhere and when a heavy lorry goes by we aften get a rumble through the house so didn't think much to it until it became really intense ... thankfully only lasted 40-50sec's with no after shocks felt.
I said to my other half it must have been a quake, bout time I was right
It woke up the boys and they were buzzing, the eldest of 12 was scared .. but of course this morning, he had not been scared, he had just been worried about us in our room ..... bless
!!!Hope every body is okay!!!

Well, a first for me too, must say it was very exciting!!! Got the old heart rate up a wee bit ... what a buzz

[Clinton Hogben]

I got deads... I just don't know whether it was the falling and hitting the floor, or the shelving hitting the tubs. *sighs*

Hi Louise
Really sorry for your lost ones
Hugs n Stuff
Clint

[Louise~Nichols]

Thanks Traci...here it felt more like a lorry had hit the house; the path outside has broken and one section has lifted up by about an inch, whilst the other chunk has kind of dropped underneath...I grabbed a photo as it was pretty awesome seeing evidence of what a powerful heave we had!

[Louise~Nichols]

Hi Louise
Really sorry for your lost ones
Hugs n Stuff
Clint

Cheers Clint, much appreciated...so far 2008 is going with a bang...be it me breaking bones...or the earth moving! *sighs*

[Traci Barker]

wow, seeing pictures of what happen to people you talk to your self makes it even more real, doesn't it!

[Louise~Nichols]

It certainly does drive it home, there was a *quake club* on msn last night, reassuring each other we hadn't gone crazy!!
I can picture me in 50 years time...somewhere on a *granny farm*...relating tales: *I remember the great quake of 2008...I remember the ground heaving and the house shaking...but I'll be beggared if I can remember my name!*

[Colin D Wilson]

All i can say is thanks to heavy webbing the three OBT's that vibrated off the shelf are all ok, in fact one was still eating a cricket

sorry about yours Noodle.

Colin

[Louise~Nichols]

All i can say is thanks to heavy webbing the three OBT's that vibrated off the shelf are all ok, in fact one was still eating a cricket

sorry about yours Noodle.

Colin

Thanks Colin...I think my motto for this year has just become *ere we go again*

Well I'm glad yours are ok...good ole OBT's!! lol Stoical and tough as old boots!!