Earthquake in England!!

We've just had an earthquake here in East Yorkshire, and it was pretty striking, the whole house rumbling, shaking and rattling. If this wasn't near the epicentre, it could have been big elsewhere.Anyone else in the U.K. feel anything just before 1:00 am.?

You beat me to it! I've just posted another thread along the same lines. I am in Leicester, so that's a pretty wide ranging tremor. How long did it go on for in Yorkshire?

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Mutate and Survive

About 10 to 15 seconds, I suppose. You're probably about 100 miles away as the crow flies, so maybe it was pretty big in between.

OK, here's the text from the post I started, we may as well just use the one thread for this.----Just a few minutes ago, at about 00:57am (GMT) I had a most unusual experience, at least pretty unusual for Leicester; The whole house was shaken by an earthquake.At first it was a small rumbling noise and I thought that it was noise from next door. A few seconds later, the noise had become rather louder and the walls were shaking. It was obviously an earthquake. My whole flat was shaking, indeed, the whole building seemed to be wobbling, but since nothing seemed to be falling apart, I remained eerily calm and just sat there. It lasted about a minute, mostly aftershocks. I found the whole thing rather thrilling, having never experienced an earth tremor before.My neighbour popped round to check that I was OK, which was very sweet of her. She is from Turkey, where earthquakes are rather common and she seems to think it quite a big one. Seismic activity is pretty sedate in Britain most of the time.So did anyone else feel it? Has anyone experienced a quake themselves? I have a feeling that some of you are going to have scarier earthquakes stories than that, so let's hear them!

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Mutate and Survive

Is earthquake that uncommon in england?

If our guesses at the length of time are near (I can't really be sure) then the epicentre may have been in the Midlands somewhere.Having written that, news is just coming in on the BBC, and the epicentre was 30 miles south of here!! (Hull)

Yes. We're way distant from any major fault lines. Iceland's on one way to the north, and the Mediterranean area gets far more quakes to the south, which is where I've experienced them before. But this is the first I've felt in my own country.

Yeah, earthquakes are pretty unusual, at least ones that you really notice are not common. This wasn't massive, but it's enough to get us excited!
Of course if it was felt from Yorkshire to the Midlands that's about 100 miles or so apart. I wonder where the epicentre was?

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Mutate and Survive

If it really is that rare and England experienced it now, I suppose there is some truth to what Fred Phelps claims about god hating England.Attention Required! | Cloudflare

You've been spending too much time bugging the Phelps clan, you're starting to think like them!
Actually, if you've been anywhere near that lot, no wonder you've been stressed out.

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Mutate and Survive

Heh - made me jump. My fiancee was frightened witless - she was in bed which seemingly resonated giving her the impression that it was just the bed getting bumped around. It was probably the biggest I've felt - and I caught a few of the Manchester Earthquake Swarm. My initial hunch was that it was a tremor, which was confirmed when I discovered that the BGS website was struggling

Looks like the centre will have been around Lincoln, which has a nice old city area. Hope it, and the cathedral, are O.K.{ABE}The BBC has just upgraded it from 4.7 to 5.1 here,BBC NEWS | UK | England | Earthquake felt across much of UKwhere you can email them your own experiences if you want.Edited by bluegenes, : update

Oh my effing god.Check this out. FSTDT, two days ago.

Hahahahah. That's too funny.Hey, biology girl, wanna help me with my comprehensive list on mammals on Noahs' ark in this thread?Edited by Taz, : No reason given.

That was cool, if not a little scary! No damage from what I can see though. Didn't know you were from Hull Bluegenes- so am I. Small (virtual) world.Edited by The Matt, : No reason given.