Quake
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Topic: Quake
Posted By: Chris Bridges
Subject: Quake
Date Posted: 27 Feb 08 at 8:05am
Anyone else feel it last night? Measured 5.2 rictar scale. I only woke up because some pussy in the year bellow next door was screaming  . Although really not that scary, though some plaster did fall off ceiling but only because its rubbish and old! Went straight back to sleep..------------- 49er GBR735 (for sale) - Rutland SC |
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Posted By: radixon
Date Posted: 27 Feb 08 at 9:22am
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Didn't feel a thing!! Oh and I'll probably find out later as the eppicentre was near to my Aunt!
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Posted By: Villan
Date Posted: 27 Feb 08 at 9:28am
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Nope, Woke up this morning ... And am still ill. Back to bed ( and 'allo 'allo! ) ------------- Vareo - 149 "Secrets" http://www.TandyUKServers.co.uk" rel="nofollow - TandyUK Servers |
Posted By: Ross
Date Posted: 27 Feb 08 at 10:47am
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2 of my friends rang me last night and they only live 5 minuets away but I didn't feel a thing. From what the said it wasn't just a little bump in the night. ------------- Ross If you can't carry it, don't sail it! |
Posted By: Chris Bridges
Date Posted: 27 Feb 08 at 10:53am
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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!) ------------- 49er GBR735 (for sale) - Rutland SC |
Posted By: Scooby_simon
Date Posted: 27 Feb 08 at 1:08pm
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Woke me up in Hitchin! But our house is on pile driven foundations. ------------- Wanna learn to Ski - PM me.. |
Posted By: ratface
Date Posted: 27 Feb 08 at 1:29pm
felt the quake and was kept up by a annoying helicopter 
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Posted By: Chris Bridges
Date Posted: 27 Feb 08 at 1:55pm
My parents live near Hitchen yet felt nothing (and they were awake) yet the village down the road everyone felt it quite badly, wierd! ------------- 49er GBR735 (for sale) - Rutland SC |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 27 Feb 08 at 2:37pm
| Reminds me of the http://www.surf-sales.com/vbulletin/vbulletin/upload/showthread.php?t=133 - Folkestone Quake last year. |
Posted By: Villan
Date Posted: 27 Feb 08 at 2:59pm
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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! ------------- Vareo - 149 "Secrets" http://www.TandyUKServers.co.uk" rel="nofollow - TandyUK Servers |
Posted By: Chris Bridges
Date Posted: 27 Feb 08 at 4:41pm
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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) ------------- 49er GBR735 (for sale) - Rutland SC |
Posted By: HannahJ
Date Posted: 27 Feb 08 at 5:23pm
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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Posted By: Kudlinski
Date Posted: 27 Feb 08 at 5:32pm
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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/ ------------- RS400 866 RS300 381 |
Posted By: Chris Bridges
Date Posted: 27 Feb 08 at 6:19pm
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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 - http://www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/recent_events/recent_events .html A second happened soon after but not as big. ------------- 49er GBR735 (for sale) - Rutland SC |
Posted By: mike ellis
Date Posted: 27 Feb 08 at 6:55pm
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maybe the land is opening up to swallow lincoln, perhaps a warning from the almighty of what is to come? ------------- 600 732, will call it Sticks and Stones when i get round to it. Also International 14, 1318 |
Posted By: tmoore
Date Posted: 27 Feb 08 at 7:09pm
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i was awake at the time watching a film. didnt feel a thing. Its largely to do with the type of soil/ rock the houses are built upon. unconsolidated rock is much less stable than than solid bedrock and so the efects of the quake are greater. as for the quake reason, it can be due to almost anything. Britain does have some old (inactive) plate margins - menai straits covers one such. reason why i know this - just dne earthquakes and volcanoes in A'Level geography ------------- Landlocked in Africa RS300 - 410 Firefly F517 - Nutshell Micro Magic RC yacht - Eclipse |
Posted By: Jamie600
Date Posted: 27 Feb 08 at 7:11pm
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I'm in Sheffield and felt it quite well, the bed was shaking for england, wardrobe doors banging, glasses of water on the side table rattling, although I didn't quite wake up so I wasn't sure whether it was happening for real or I dreamt it. Having dismissed it as a dream it was quite a suprise to switch on the news in the morning and find out it wasn't ------------- RS600 1001 |
Posted By: Chris Bridges
Date Posted: 27 Feb 08 at 7:15pm
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Aparantly also which floor of the building you are on, the higher up the more likely you are to feel something, also materials your house are made of.. A tutor in my house who is a geography teacher gave us a longwinded explanation of what effects how bad it is for different people over dinner yet forgot to mention why it happens ------------- 49er GBR735 (for sale) - Rutland SC |
Posted By: stuarthop
Date Posted: 27 Feb 08 at 11:04pm
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I felt it in north wales (wrexham), had just got into bed when my bed started vibrating and the street lights went out, only lasted about 15 seconds. Was pretty loud and you could feel it was pretty strong yet everyone else at home slept through it! ------------- |
Posted By: tmoore
Date Posted: 28 Feb 08 at 6:05pm
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asked my geog teacher on where other plate margins are in the UK. Apparently theres one which goes up the menai strits, along the top of wales (at sea) then across England and goes right under where the epicentre. She said the slip would only have been about 0.5mm MAX!!!!!!. apparently its because the different plates are pushing the UK in different ways and twisting it slightly. ------------- Landlocked in Africa RS300 - 410 Firefly F517 - Nutshell Micro Magic RC yacht - Eclipse |
Posted By: Chris Bridges
Date Posted: 28 Feb 08 at 6:37pm
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Yep pressure points making tiny cracks 20 kms or so down... I asked mine too ------------- 49er GBR735 (for sale) - Rutland SC |
Posted By: Black no sugar
Date Posted: 28 Feb 08 at 6:42pm
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I haven't had a geography teacher for some time now, so I watched the brain-numbing animation on the 10 O'Clock news. Doh! Serves me right for watching ITV news... ------------- http://www.lancingsc.org.uk/index.html - Lancing SC 
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Posted By: 29er310
Date Posted: 01 Mar 08 at 5:09pm
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I had a look at a geological map of the UK and couldnt see any plate margins across lincoln? ------------- ---------------------- International 14 GBR1485 29er 310 for sale Laser 138462 for sale Optimist 4626 For sale |
Posted By: tmoore
Date Posted: 01 Mar 08 at 5:22pm
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was it a drift geology map or solid geology? (drift will only show the surface rocks which could be deposited by glaciers, rivers etc. and so wouldnt show it) ------------- Landlocked in Africa RS300 - 410 Firefly F517 - Nutshell Micro Magic RC yacht - Eclipse |