Did anyone else just feel the earth move??

[Annasfield]

I'm sure we just had a minor tremor. Chatting to some friends on MSN and they felt it too (in Nottingham). Will await further developments in the morning.::o

[Annasfield]

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

I didn't imagine it then.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2008nyae.php

[redrouge]

Nothing on Lordship Lane. Lewisham friends say they felt it though!

[Eileen]

so it wasn't my imagination! I did wonder at the time, felt a bit of vertigo, and then forgot about it. Just looked at the BBC news website:

Earthquake hits much of England http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7266136.stm

The biggest earthquake in the UK for nearly 25 years has shaken homes across large parts of England.

People in Newcastle, Yorkshire, London, Manchester, the Midlands and Norfolk felt the tremor at about 0100 GMT.

[dulwichmum]

Dear Redrouge,

Well your friends in Lewisham will have felt it, and I would venture that the inhabitants of Lambeth were cowering under their kitchen tables too, these areas have so much in common with areas like Grimsby. You will find that the homes of Dulwich are good quality dwellings, built on firm foundations. The gin in my glass didn't even ripple, and I had already consumed half a bottle.

This is afterall Dulwich darling, we are just not prone to this type of hysterical happening around here...

[KalamityKel]

And there was me finking it was just wind! ;-) lol

[Floating Onion]

Didn't feel a thing. Only found out by seeing it on the news at work.

[dulwichmum]

You see? This is Dulwich. Like I said, earthquakes are just NOCD!

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

Nope, just heard about it on the radio this morning.

[Michael Palaeologus]

Chav's back!! Hurrah!!

[LostThePlot]

Yes, was woken by the wardrobe doors in the bedroom rattling away and wife asking me what I was doing (Wary I was up to my old wardrobe rattling tricks again...clearly..)

How exciting!

[Keef]

Ha, saw the title of this thread, and thought our Anna had taken some young stud home with her last night! :-S

[annaj]

Didn't feel a thing, but my sister in Ely (near Cambridge) was woken by it and it was strong enough that she knew it was an earthquake.

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

Haha thanks Michael. I've been too busy to do much EDF-ing recently!

[capt_birdseye]

It woke me. I thought someone was stomping around the house!

[KalamityKel]

I was convinced my alarm had gone off and was ready to jump out of bed and start the day... :-S

[Asset]

fast asleep, what a bore!

I was in quite a big one in India years ago and it was a very strange experience.

[Cassius]

dulwichmum Wrote:

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The gin in my glass didn't even

> ripple, and I had already consumed half a bottle.

>

Dulwich Mum - drinking at 1.00am in the morning - people will talk (even more)

[Nero]

Fast asleep and felt nothing! Nero

[SteveT]

Some of us dream about the earth moving, other than digging the garden;-)

[KalamityKel]

Well at least there's a get out from the "was it good for u?" ;-)

[Annasfield]

For those who it did wake, or who were awake anyway - did it not freak you out a little?

I was quite spooked by it at first as I thought I was imagining things, but it was clear towards the end what was going on. Felt like I was in a scene from The Exorcist! :-S

No one in the office even knew about this morning and they all thought I was taking the Mick. I think those who did experience it have been more excited. Not the sort of thing you expect to experience in the UK.

[quirky]

I was awake and i just thought i must be more tired than i realised. Noone mentioned it at school either. I would have thought the kids would have been going on about it non stop but then again I suppose they most probably watch cartoons in the morning not GMTV.

[pearcesa]

I was woken up as my window was rattling and the door slammed (it was ajar), I thought it was the wind but clearly it was an earthquake ... Eeeek!

[redrouge]

I think we're prone to odd weather as opposed to strange earthmovements!

My friend said he felt the earthquake, CDs fell from his shelf, yet my boyfrind and his flatmate felt absoloutely nothing! I suppose when it comes to Lewisham it all depends on how many CDs you own to measure the magnitude of truly British earthquake.

I was also drinking at 1am (also gin!) but consuming cheese on toast (mozzarella). I wonder if cheese on toast buffers earthquakes...