UK experiences 5.3 earthquake this morning at 1am

[SpeedMap]

On the morning news right now, a 5.3 (Richter Scale) earthquake hit eastern England this morning at 1am (6 hrs ago) in the county of Lincolnshire, mild damage to buildings, chimney breasts etc falling to the ground, the quake lasted for 10 seconds.

Further reading here on this quite rare event for this country:

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

 

[Michelle]

Yea just heard about this... Not far away from me they say they **felt** it...

I slept right through anything

I hope peeps didnt suffer too much damage :td:

UK is not used to or prepared for anything like this............

 

[SpeedMap]

So the earth didn't move for you last night Mellow? :hehe:

Damn!

 

[kev]

There is nothing more terrifying than an earthquake!

I was in Greece on holiday in June last year and an earthquake measuring 6.2 on the richter scale hit us. I remember looking up at the air fan whizzing round on the roof of the restraunt we were in thinking it was gonna fall and cut my head off :hehe: ill never forget it...

It's definitely something you have to experience before you die :hehe:

 

[monaco]

Earthquakes are no big deal. I grew up in So Cal and slept through the Northridge 6.6 in 1994 -- a mere 20 miles from the epicenter.

Ya just get used to them.

 

[rcep]

whats happening to the world
last few days my country also got 2 earthquakes

 

[Albino]

Earthquakes are no big deal. I grew up in So Cal and slept through the Northridge 6.6 in 1994 -- a mere 20 miles from the epicenter.

Ya just get used to them.

yea, not big deal there where you are pretty much on a fault line, but in the uk, they are very rare.

I was out last night, and so didn't feel it (mainly due to loud music and alcohol)

 

[Joe]

I was up at the time it happened.. and two UK'ers I was chatting too said they felt it.
I felt nothing, and I live in the south east (a little way off of London).

And mellow is right, UK buildings aren't made for any natural disasters, such as tornados or earthquakes.

Joe

 

[monaco]

I guess that makes sense...I'd imagine there's a lot more focus given to seismic event preparedness in So Cali than in the UK.

 

[Joseph]

I slept right through anything

+1

I've slept through a bomb before! :hehe:

 

[bertiewooster]

I'm in the North West - Manchester - and felt it here. Scary!

 

[Morph]

The oil place woke me up year back, but I was awake and didn't feel this.

 

[htmlindex]

I just heard about this on the news about an hour ago. Luckily, where I live, there hasn't been any earthquakes & the likelyhood of it happening is extremely slim.

 

[Niek]

It is so weird to hear stuff like this.
I mean , i don't live far from england (belgium) and think that this is very terrifying , since
these things are not common , surely not on a scale like that.

 

[Peter]

there was an earthquake in England last year as well (Margate if I remember correctly)