Discussion » UK Earthquake - 27/2/08 @ 1:00am

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Posted by WarHead, around February 2008:
 
Anyone else feel the earthquake at one o'clock?

I think it was a pretty big one. For the UK, that is.
Posted by Brock, around February 2008:
 
Ask your wife, dude. It'll be teh first time the earth moved for her for years, I bet.


(arf)
Posted by syl, around February 2008:
 
That's weird. I didn't think you guys got them.
Posted by WarHead, around February 2008:
 
Oh, yes, we do, but usually only little ones, but this was the biggest for 25 years.


@ Brock: True, and she was asleep on that occasion too.
Posted by syl, around February 2008:
 
Newcastle, Yorkshire, London, Manchester, the Midlands and Norfolk and also parts of Wales, wowee. It seems only minor damage though?
Posted by WarHead, around February 2008:
 
Yes, but a lot of people were quite cross about it.
Posted by Sul, around February 2008:
 
Was up and about but didn't feel a thing.
Posted by syl, around February 2008:
 
I would have slept through it. I sleep like the dead.
Posted by che, around February 2008:
 
Emma woke up, I was fast asleep.

Headline news was along the lines of

"man slightly hurt by falling chimney, someone in Chester wakes up momentarily then goes back to sleep"
Posted by che, around February 2008:
 
actually just checked and to be fair the "man slightly hurt" did actually break his pelvis.
Posted by WarHead, around February 2008:
 
Bloody hell. Slightly hurt by a falling chimney and broke his own pelvis; what a numpty.
Posted by friday, around February 2008:
 
I have got air in the central heating system and when I was woken up in the early hours of this morning I actually thought it was the heating. Then I realised that the heating was not on. Then I thought I was in Malawi again where tremors are quite frequent.

I then thought I was imagining it until I read this thread.

What is even more amazing is that I won a radiator bleeding key from BG today. I now have no air in the heating system.
Posted by jeffry, around February 2008:
 
I felt it but had no idea it was a tremor until I saw the news this morning.
Posted by friday, around February 2008:
 
Yes, but a lot of people were quite cross about it.

That is very English, no?
Posted by Redmaiden, around February 2008:
 
I heard summit funny last night and thought it was the wind (no fart jokes thanks) but didn't realise it was an earthquake till this morning.
Posted by Saltation, 9th March 2008:
 
i'm never eating vindaloo again