Earthquake in uk?

Question

where abouts do you live in the uk,and what were you doing at the time when the quake hit the uk.i live in scarborough north yorkshire,and we were in bed watching tv when we felt the earth tremor,i thought it was my partner messing about with the bed,so i asked him if he had been messing about with the bed,and he said that it wasnt him,so then i thought that we might have a ghost who was trying to move the bed,until we heard it on the radio this morning that an earthquake had hit the uk at around 1am this morning

Answer 1

Was this it?

Magnitude 4.7 - ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM

2008 February 27 00:56:45 UTC

Earthquake Details

Magnitude 4.7

Date-Time Wednesday, February 27, 2008 at 00:56:45 UTC

Location 53.321°N, 0.314°W

Depth 10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program

Region ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM

Distances 50 km (30 miles) S of Kingston upon Hull, England, UK

70 km (45 miles) NE of Nottingham, England, UK

80 km (50 miles) E of Sheffield, England, UK

205 km (125 miles) N of LONDON, United Kingdom

You can get more information here…

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/neic...

Answer 2

Really? I never heard that...

Answer 3

i live in the midlands in ashby. i didn't feel the quake cos i was dead to the world in bed but my grandad felt it. he said the whole wall and sofa he was lying on was shaking.

Answer 4

Our Daughter lives at Bridlington, and phoned just after it happened.

We had nothing here in Somerset.

Answer 5

Im in Leeds and I was feeding my newborn son and I thought it was ghosts at first! The whole house was really shaking,My husband slept right through it naturally!

Answer 6

I'm in northamptonshire,was woken up by the earth moving,was kinda scary.

Answer 7

I was in bed asleep, bf was on computer lol we both felt it, i thought it was a ghost shaking the bed, he thought it was a bomb lol

Im from Burnely, near  Manchester

Answer 8

East London and I didnt hear a thing, but not a lot wakes me up once Im asleep.

Answer 9

I was deep in typing and didn't notice anything but my brother who lives 5 miles from me said his bed shook. We both live in Berkshire.

Answer 10

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/72661...

Answer 11

i live in manchester but im originally from linclonshire and all my family are still there. i didnt hear or feel a thing but i phoned my mum at 7am this morning to check everyone was ok and she said it was really bad near her. the whole house shook and they thought the house was falling down. my sister said the same thing. so scary.

Answer 12

I was writing a presentation for an interview and wide awake in Essex - didn't feel a thing!!!

Answer 13

I'm in Somerset and I didn't feel a thing. first I knew was on the news this morning

Answer 14

I'm in London and i felt it. I was in bed watching The Sopranos on DVD. The bed, my mirror, TV and lamp all started shaking for about 5-10 seconds. Living in London i thought it might be vibrations of a bomb or something (paranoid i know). I turned off the DVD about ten minutes later and switched on sky news and they were reporting tremors.

How weird that we felt it here in London when the epicentre was so far away.

Answer 15

I am in Hull and was in bed there is a lot of structural damage in Hull and grimsby.

Latest Earthquake, 27 February 2008, 00:56 UTC

PRELIMINARY LOCATION 22 km SW of Grimsby/8 km East of Market Rasen

PRELIMINARY MAGNITUDE 5.3 ML

damage reported at portabella st and park st in Hull

The Richter Approximate Magnitude of 5 is equivalent to 32 kiloton of TNT or the same  as Nagasaki atomic bomb (actual seismic yield was negligible since it detonated in the atmosphere)

Answer 16

Yes.This map shows the affected areas

http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/shake/ous/ST...

Answer 17

I live in Cheshire and we felt the earthquake as I was up looking after my boyfriend who was ill with a migraine.  He'd never experienced an earth quake before.  This is the third one at least that I have felt in about 20 years.

Answer 18

A few of my relations live in a place near chorley in lancashire but I live in leeds but I am on holiday

Answer 19

didnt feel a thing in bognor

Answer 20

I don't live in the UK, but when my son bought a new mobile phone and left it on the coffee table, it started to vibrate and skitter across the table - it took me a few seconds to understand that it was not an earthquake.

Once, when I was in a war zone, there was a dull thud, the house shook and my interpreter said, 'Don't worry, it's only an earthquake.' Brits aren't used to earthquakes! But anyway, it wasn't a bomb.

Answer 21

I was sound asleep. Didnt feel a thing. Didnt know about it. Until I was in a taxi and he told me. Heavy sleeper I guess. Just hope I would wake up if it was a very serious one and I had to save the life of my beautiful son. XX