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Earthquake in Sheffield UK

EARTHQUAKE omfg In ENGLAND !!

Omg I sh*t my self :/
4.7 on rikta scale
I was just browsing net on me iPhone my bed started shaking like crazy den me room just started vibrating n I got dizzy n stuff
I shouted me mum
I was the only one up !!
My first earthquake my god scary stuff!!
 
aanndrew said:
Omg I sh*t my self :/
4.7 on rikta scale
I was just browsing net on me iPhone my bed started shaking like crazy den me room just started vibrating n I got dizzy n stuff
I shouted me mum
I was the only one up !!
My first earthquake my god scary stuff!!
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I'm sorry, that's an awful experience you had, but that's one of the funniest posts I've ever read :D
 
xUKHCx said:
What is a normal earthquake for you and what is the biggest you have felt.
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I don't think they come in normal sizes. The biggest I've been through was the 1994 Northridge earthquake, which was a 7.3 on the Richter Scale IIRC. The epicenter was about 25 miles away. The scale is logarithmic, so that's a much bigger quake than the one you had. It was very destructive in many nearby areas but not where I live fortunately. Still, plenty scary. In a way, the worst part was the aftershocks some of which were quite significant quakes on their own. We felt them for weeks afterwards and they mostly seemed to come in the middle of the night.
 
IJ Reilly said:
I don't think they come in normal sizes. The biggest I've been through was the 1994 Northridge earthquake, which was a 7.3 on the Richter Scale IIRC. The epicenter was about 25 miles away.
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wow 7.3 is pretty huge that must have been very scary. I found it quite exciting and scary at the same time. At least I can now say I have felt an earthquake.

I know quite a lot about the richter scale as my dad is a geologist and my mum a geography teacher.
 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7266136.stm

5.3

It's a significant quake and they're scary but I kinda had to giggle at all the reactions on the BBC site, people crying and stuff. LOLz

Sorry England, I'm a native Californian and these things follow me wherever I go.

(I was in Santa Cruz in '89 for the 7.1 Loma Preita, and already back living in LA [woodland hills] for the '94 Northridge quake, which they claim was 6.7 but honestly, it felt a lot bigger than that. terrifying)

I hate earthquakes because I'm a bit traumatized by them... so I am glad I slept through this one. :eek: :)
 
xUKHCx said:
Sheffield UK just had an earthquake, wasn't big but I have never felt one before crazy.
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An earthquake oop NORTH? That must have caused tens of Pounds worth of damage!! :p

Joking aside, I hope your whippets and pigeons are ok.
 
bartelby said:
An earthquake oop NORTH? That must have caused tens of Pounds worth of damage!! :p
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Fair rattled the coal in the bath, so it did...

We were woken up by it just before 1am – the best way I can think to describe it was that it sounded like someone was tipping bricks and wood down the outside of our house, and it lasted for about ten seconds. Miss Jaffa Cake had the radio on and pretty soon the BBC were reporting it as being 4.7 in strength, with the epicentre about 30 miles south of 'Kingston on Hull [sic] in North Yorkshire [sic].' This information had come in from American earthquake monitors, apparently the British earthquake monitoring systems had been broken by the earthquake. :D

My immediate thought was whether we'd suffered any damage, but I decided that if part of our house had fallen down then it would still be fallen down in the morning, so I may as well go back to sleep and check it then. Still, it woke me up so I've decided that earthquakes are officially rubbish. :mad:
 
I live north of Lincoln and although now I understand it wasnt a big one, it was a big one for the UK.
Sound asleep at 5 to 1 and got woken up pretty abruptly with the bed shaking back and forth! the scary part for my wife and me was that we both sat up in bed to find the bed and the whole room swaying forwards and backwards by a couple of inches accompanied by a loud, very loud rumble!
I couldnt tell if i were dreaming at first, but then my wife was saying "what the hell is that!?" i shot out of bed and the room was still moving along with the rumble and she yelled that the bed was still rumbling too.

The house had an extension many years ago and to be honest I thought it was that, that had crashed down or what remains of the chimney stack on the roof (it had been half taken out by previous owners).
I slowly walked around the house expecting to find cracks or rubble somewhere and even opened the door to the extension on the first floor pretty wearily thinking that when i opened the bedroom door I might be looking outside and half the extension had gone! (it hadnt :) )

txted a friend a couple of miles away to realise he felt it to so I called him and he confirmed it. Switched on sky news and it was confirmed as an earthquake.

All in all shook me up to start with, after all I am an earthquake virgin :confused: but I feel for you guys in the west who have these regularly!
 
I felt it here in Uxbridge. It was crazy. I was on the phone to my girlfriend when she started saying "I think my bed is shaking", I was just asking her if it could be her housemates messing around when my whole room shook. I was so surprised, I've never felt one like that before.
 
Jaffa Cake said:
My immediate thought was whether we'd suffered any damage, but I decided that if part of our house had fallen down then it would still be fallen down in the morning, so I may as well go back to sleep and check it then. Still, it woke me up so I've decided that earthquakes are officially rubbish. :mad:
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:D

Thank you for the laugh!
 
I just discovered a crack in my ceiling and lots of grit down the left side of my bed right under the crack

Jaffa Cake said:
My immediate thought was whether we'd suffered any damage, but I decided that if part of our house had fallen down then it would still be fallen down in the morning,
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That is almost verbatum what I said to my housemate.
 
Jaffa Cake said:
This information had come in from American earthquake monitors, apparently the British earthquake monitoring systems had been broken by the earthquake. :D
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Priceless.

Hope no one suffered any significant damage. Less than the poor chap that now has a chimney sticking from him stomach anyway.

Didn't feel it up here. :cool: Sturdy you see, had to keep those pesky Scots out. ;)
 
Mord said:
Possibly, I was being intimate with my girlfriend at the time :eek:

Never felt one before, it was weird having the ground move.
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That made me laugh during an otherwise dull day at work, thanks! :)
 
IJ Reilly said:
The biggest I've been through was the 1994 Northridge earthquake, which was a 7.3 on the Richter Scale IIRC
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I was in Sacramento for a music competition the day that happened. My grandmother (the biggest worrier you will ever meet) heard about the earthquake on the news and was all upset because she thought I might have been killed in the quake. She, not ever having been to California, didn't realize that Sacramento is almost 6 hours away from Northridge and couldn't even be felt up there.
 
Stampyhead said:
I was in Sacramento for a music competition the day that happened. My grandmother (the biggest worrier you will ever meet) heard about the earthquake on the news and was all upset because she thought I might have been killed in the quake. She, not ever having been to California, didn't realize that Sacramento is almost 6 hours away from Northridge and couldn't even be felt up there.
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I think somebody else may have already corrected me on this, but the Northridge quake clocked in at 6.7. It was still quite a ride.
 
I was sat on my red Ikea sofa, reading Macrumors on my macbook in north London when it happened.

Felt the sofa shaking slightly. Sorta as if someone was jumping up and down next door. I live in a prewar terraced house, solid as hell, but the floors do resonate a bit depending on what's happening next door.

I wondered briefly if someone was kicking in my front door, (which seems to be a common thing for UK people in earthquake situations... )

Put my hand on the wall, and felt it shaking and bouncing a little bit. Thought maybe it was late night roadworks outside. (yeah right at 1am, but I was pretty tired, and our street is actually being dug up for a watermains replacement)

Went to bed and didn't think anything of it.

Next morning see the earthquake news :eek: suddenly remember

1. my next door neighbour is a 70 year old woman who's not gonna be jumping around at 1am, and

2. that the wall I was holding last night is a 100 year old 2 foot thick stonework structural wall that holds up two houses and is not a wall that moves just cos it feels like it.

:eek::eek:

Earthquakes are cool :cool:

This earthquake brought me good luck - the post I was typing at the time became a front page main news article on MR!

https://www.macrumors.com/2008/02/27/next-macbook-and-macbook-pro-updates-in-june/

it's the second one down on the front page at the moment :)
 
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