[kendra k]

congratulations on your eathquake, ingelrand.

[catherine]

I felt it, i had just got into bed and shake, shake, shake. I knew it was far away though because it wasn't loud like the one a few years ago in Dudley. Hope everyone is safe and well.

[Sunny So Cal]

Ah, earthquakes...They always come at night so they can wake you from a dead sleep. At least it's someplace other than here for a change!
Hope all are safe and sound.

[wurzel]

Didnt even know there was one until Dom did the news this morning at 7:30 so obviously didnt get to us.

Hope everyone is safe and has little or no damage!

[foot-loose]

Someone said Mr Kipling was responsible?


That said, he does make exceedingly good quakes.

[MK Chris]

I slept through it, though it woke my mum and Steve, in the room next to me. Gutted, I've always wanted to feel an earthquake (not a big one, obviously.)

[foot-loose]

I slept through it, though it woke my mum and Steve, in the room next to me. Gutted, I've always wanted to feel an earthquake (not a big one, obviously.)

You should come out for a night with me. I'll make the earth move for you, baby.

[Yudster]

Almost everyone I have spoken to this morning reckons they felt it. Well, I was awake and up when it happened, and I never felt a thing. I think they're all fibbing. We are a long way from it here, I think people just want to be a part of the experience!

[MK Chris]

I slept through it, though it woke my mum and Steve, in the room next to me. Gutted, I've always wanted to feel an earthquake (not a big one, obviously.)

You should come out for a night with me. I'll make the earth move for you, baby.

Ahem, I said not a big one.

Almost everyone I have spoken to this morning reckons they felt it. Well, I was awake and up when it happened, and I never felt a thing. I think they're all fibbing. We are a long way from it here, I think people just want to be a part of the experience!

Yeah, but it was supposedly felt all over.. I'm pretty sure I'd have felt it, had I been up! I'm just a deep sleeper.

The one that made me laugh is the guy on the BBC News web site from Milton Keynes who said something along the lines of "it felt like a giant was shaking the house." I hate it when that happens!

[Ballbag]

Me and Mrs B may have been up to a bit of rumpy pumpy at the time, cos I didn't notice the quake.

[Yudster]

Honestly Topher, if the earth had shaken here our house would have fallen over, it's that badly built - an aeroplane can make the windows rattle, lorrys on the A12 (a mile away) cause vibration. Really, if it had been feelable here, we'd have noticed it!

[foot-loose]

I slept through it, though it woke my mum and Steve, in the room next to me. Gutted, I've always wanted to feel an earthquake (not a big one, obviously.)

You should come out for a night with me. I'll make the earth move for you, baby.

Ahem, I said not a big one.

I shall take that as a compliment.

lorrys on the A12 (a mile away)

*adds to 'Stalking Yudster' list.*

I'll find you yet!

[Yudster]

Well, you're a sofa, you're a professional place finder!

[MK Chris]

Yeah but he works in Scotland. There's only one road, three houses and two dog kennels.

[Yudster]

We've always had earthquakes in this country, a large number of them in the Colchester region. There are three or four major geological fault lines underneath us. They're thankfully pretty stable, but they've always been there and regularly been active. Again because of their relative stability any tremors we do get tend to be relatively minor, and buildings and infrastructure here are a bit more solid here than in some places these events occur, so we tend to get less damage. The depth of the fault is also significant, but I can't remember why.

I remember when I was at school there was a small tremor once and the dustbins behind the kitchen all fell into a big (but very shallow) crack that opened up in the tarmac. This however was an indication of the quality of the tarmac, rather than the strength of the tremor I think.

[Yudster]

Well, they aren't all that spectacular are they? I think you can be forgiven. I mean, they aren't like California!

[TIAL]

I felt it in Oxford, was quite small though - I thought it was just people jumping around upstairs to be honest.
Everyone else felt it at the same time too, so it wasnt just people making things up!

[foot-loose]

I find the whole thing pretty interesting - I think I am right in saying that Scotland and England are on two seperate plates and when England came crashing upwards and Scotland came crashing downwards, thats when the mountain ranges in the Cairngorms and the hills in the north of England were formed. There is a fault line running underneath Loch Lomond which can be traced by the islands running down the middle of it. There are also two extinct volcanos close by.

Also, at its deepest point - Loch Lomond is deeper than the North Sea.

I remember when I was at school there was a small tremor once and the dustbins behind the kitchen all fell into a big (but very shallow) crack that opened up in the tarmac. This however was an indication of the quality of the tarmac, rather than the strength of the tremor I think.

Do you remember when England broke away from France?

[Zoot]

Haha, when we had the floods last year I was talking to Mrs Zoot's Mum about them, and she said she'd never forget the last big flood they had when she was younger, so I said 'Well seeing a great big wooden Ark filled with animals isn't something you'd easily forget..''


But I guess you had to be there really....

[foot-loose]

I didn't think Scotland and England were on different plates, I thought we were on the same plate.

As did I, but it was a man with a red jacket on that told me this so he must have been correct.

[foot-loose]

I knew a guy who worked in Butlins. He got fired cos he dyed his hair green for a Green Day concert.

The red jacketed man I was meaning works for the Glasgow Tour people. They have busses.

[geek]

You trust a man from Butlins?

Hey! I work for Butlins. Well I did until the park changed to Haven.

[MK Chris]

This made me laugh, again on the BBC web site:

It's just typical of new labour - we never had earthquakes under the tories. I blame their stupid namby-pamby politically correct attitudes. Just because other countries have earthquakes doesn't mean WE have to have them.

[Sunny So Cal]

I find the whole thing pretty interesting - I think I am right in saying that Scotland and England are on two seperate plates and when England came crashing upwards and Scotland came crashing downwards, thats when the mountain ranges in the Cairngorms and the hills in the north of England were formed. There is a fault line running underneath Loch Lomond which can be traced by the islands running down the middle of it. There are also two extinct volcanos close by.

Also, at its deepest point - Loch Lomond is deeper than the North Sea.

That's correct. Pangaea, Gondwana, Plate tectonics. Aargh, like studying geology all over again. If I'm remembering this from school (which, as we all know was ages ago) and not making it up, there was an ocean that separated England and Scotland but it dried up and they were stuck together -- I believe by Hadrian's Wall? Also, unless I'm halucinating, I think that all of Britain used to be part of the North American continent and I think that Scotland, in particular, was part of the American continent.

By the way, Loch Morar is deeper than Loch Lomond and is Britain's deepest body of water.

*Note: This has been typed pre-tea. If there are spelling errors or I've imagined the whole thing, I don't care*

[MK Chris]

Together Kendra and Sunny So Cal probably know more about Britain than most of the British people on this board put together.