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    Posted: 27 Feb 08 at 6:19pm

Originally posted by HannahJ

Quake woke me up, scared me out of my wits, I was convinced something supernatural was happening!   didn't even consider an earthquake, not usually something you associate with England, although apparently there are loads of small ones all the time that we don't notice.  Anyone know why it happened? I wasn't aware (from what i remember of gcse geography) that we're on a fault line.

I don't know either, we have just done the topic but only covered plate margin stuff!

http://www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/recent_events/recent_events .html

A second happened soon after but not as big.
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I thought that it was just an almighty gust of wind then went back to sleep.  Only fond out this morning and being in peterborough was not to far away from the epicentre really/
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Quake woke me up, scared me out of my wits, I was convinced something supernatural was happening!   didn't even consider an earthquake, not usually something you associate with England, although apparently there are loads of small ones all the time that we don't notice.  Anyone know why it happened? I wasn't aware (from what i remember of gcse geography) that we're on a fault line.
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Yea we live pretty close and we thought we heard it, and we could easily see the smoke (we are maybe 20 miles away or roudabouts)
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Heh GRF ... That is the same one that did the rounds after the fuel storage in Hemel blew up a few years back.

I woke up to that one! ( And as it was a windless day, we looked back on the club anemometer, and saw there was a 7knt spike at about the same time the place blew up!

Thats one hell of a blast wave!


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Reminds me of the Folkestone Quake last year.
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Originally posted by Scooby_simon

Woke me up in Hitchin!

But our house is on pile driven foundations.

My parents live near Hitchen yet felt nothing (and they were awake) yet the village down the road everyone felt it quite badly, wierd!
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felt the quake and was kept up by a annoying helicopter 
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Woke me up in Hitchin!

But our house is on pile driven foundations.

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Think the epicentre was Lincoln or something, we are in Rutland and it was quite a shake, didn't last very long though, it was enough to make me move about in my ed a bit and for my pretty much empty tube of toothpaste to fall over! (and that plaster but that is extremely sh*tty!)
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