EARTHQUAKE!!!!!!
Well did you feel it? At 0057 this morning I was shaken. I was actually frightened for my life a bit because I was sat on the sofa, minding my own business when an earthquake hit!! The whole room started to sway from side to side, slowly at first but gradually increasing in intensity until it then felt like the whole building dropped vertically, just a millimetre, but everything in the cupboards jumped on their shelves and it made the hair on the back of my neck stand on end. I've never felt an earthquake before now. I remember when I was at school in my second year geography class learning about them; I always imagined what it would feel like when the ground moves beneath you. Something so wholly immovable and solid as we find it, moving around, shifting, rippling like a liquid.
Well it wasn't all that bad but I was really scared. I ran to the bedroom and woke Beccy up as I wasn't sure what it was at first. Well I mean I knew what it was straight away in hindsight but I was sat here on the sofa thinking that feels like an earthquake: but I don't know what an earthquake feels like. Perhaps it is the building falling down: but I don't know what that feels like either. Turns out half an hour later the news is reporting it and I was right. 4.7 on the richter scale! That's pretty bad for the UK as it is an "aseismic area".
Anyways I'm still waiting for the after shock(s) but who knows maybe they'll be worse that the first one... If you don't believe me check this out, and for more scientific proof look at this screen shot of the seismic monitor!
Well it wasn't all that bad but I was really scared. I ran to the bedroom and woke Beccy up as I wasn't sure what it was at first. Well I mean I knew what it was straight away in hindsight but I was sat here on the sofa thinking that feels like an earthquake: but I don't know what an earthquake feels like. Perhaps it is the building falling down: but I don't know what that feels like either. Turns out half an hour later the news is reporting it and I was right. 4.7 on the richter scale! That's pretty bad for the UK as it is an "aseismic area".
Anyways I'm still waiting for the after shock(s) but who knows maybe they'll be worse that the first one... If you don't believe me check this out, and for more scientific proof look at this screen shot of the seismic monitor!
posted by Simon @ 2:49 AM
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Yes Si the earth moved for me too! For those of us who were awake it was worse because we experienced the whole 10 seconds. It scared the living daylights out of me. As I was alone I wasn't sure what to do, I felt I should phone someone but didnt really know who, so I got dressed instead?? Then I put BBC24 on and they said the epicentre was in Hull where Mick is so I phoned him. He was ok. I cannot believe the number of people who slept through it. Anyway just to be on the safeside and ready for anything, I slept with my clothes on.
Shaken of Wesham
I think it is only fair to point out that a (very shaken) Simon did rush into my bedroom to carry me downstairs and save me, however the earthquake had finished by then. But the thought was very much appreciated, even if I didn't 100% believe him at the time! In my defence, it's not every night you are woken up to someone announcing an earthquake, and being *slightly* annoyed by the fact that you slept through it. It isn't my fault I work so hard that my slumber is deep!
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