# Did You Feel the UK Earthquake ? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 27, 2008, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-feel-the-uk-earthquake/439351 "2008-02-27T07:35:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rayne\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@Rayne\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayne_Man)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-feel-the-uk-earthquake/439351/1 "2008-02-27T07:35:43Z")
I did. I was woken up at just before one o’clock by a loud roaring noise and the house shaking. Evidently it was a about 5.1 on the Richter Scale, with the epicentre In Market Rasen, which is about 25 miles from where we live. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-feel-the-uk-earthquake/439351/2 "2008-02-27T07:41:16Z")
I sure did. I was in bed just drifting off when the place started shaking, I almost shat myself and I’m pretty certain Eccles, the cat, did ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-feel-the-uk-earthquake/439351/3 "2008-02-27T07:50:22Z")
Coming up next: parts two and three of the California Experience: Brush Fires and Mudslides. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-feel-the-uk-earthquake/439351/4 "2008-02-27T07:58:44Z")
I certainly felt it here. I too was just drifting off. Curiously, I felt it progress from East to West. Maybe I got a reflection from the hard rock underneath the airport? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-feel-the-uk-earthquake/439351/5 "2008-02-27T08:10:47Z")
Southampton. A pack of printer paper fell off a shelf - startled me a bit, but I thought nothing more of it. ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-feel-the-uk-earthquake/439351/6 "2008-02-27T08:19:58Z")
Bolton, nope slept like a baby. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-feel-the-uk-earthquake/439351/7 "2008-02-27T09:10:24Z")
According to BBC Ceefax it was the biggest to hit Merrie England in 25 years. Obviously it avoided Bolton what with the place being the back of beyond and all that. 😃 Innit? ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-feel-the-uk-earthquake/439351/8 "2008-02-27T09:11:44Z")
[QUOTE=movingfinger] Coming up next: parts two and three of the California Experience: Brush Fires and Mudslides. [/QUOTE] Tsunamis, we demand tsunamis ---
**Author:** ![Dervorin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Dervorin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervorin)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-feel-the-uk-earthquake/439351/9 "2008-02-27T09:16:34Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] Tsunamis, we demand tsunamis [/QUOTE] And hurricanes? London; didn’t feel a thing. I was astonished when I opened this post; didn’t even know there had been an earthquake. ---
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-feel-the-uk-earthquake/439351/10 "2008-02-27T09:59:07Z")
Manchester. Didn’t feel a thing. ---
**Author:** ![kferr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@kferr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kferr)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-feel-the-uk-earthquake/439351/11 "2008-02-27T10:01:56Z")
Farnborough, Hants. It woke me up. It seemed like a low frequency side-to-side sway. ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-feel-the-uk-earthquake/439351/12 "2008-02-27T10:13:32Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] According to BBC Ceefax it was the biggest to hit Merrie England in 25 years. Obviously it avoided Bolton what with the place being the back of beyond and all that. 😃 Innit? [/QUOTE] having spoen to other locals, apparently it was felt here. I just sleep quite deeply it seems. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-feel-the-uk-earthquake/439351/13 "2008-02-27T10:16:32Z")
[QUOTE=AngelicGemma] Manchester. Didn’t feel a thing. [/QUOTE] 😕😕 ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-feel-the-uk-earthquake/439351/14 "2008-02-27T10:20:37Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] 😕😕 [/QUOTE] just because you’re startled awake when a passing mouse trips over a twig… ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-feel-the-uk-earthquake/439351/15 "2008-02-27T10:34:38Z")
I was awake sitting up during it and felt nothing. There was a picture knocked over on its back in the kitchen that I blamed the cat for, that might have been something to do with it though. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-feel-the-uk-earthquake/439351/16 "2008-02-27T10:36:20Z")
The population of the East coast of Northern Ireland was supposed to have felt something, enough for the local radio stations to keep playing Carole King’s “I feel the earth move under my feet” a few times :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-feel-the-uk-earthquake/439351/17 "2008-02-27T10:58:54Z")
Edinburgh - nothing. A cat was going bonkers outside, though, at about the same time, so perhaps it felt something? ---
**Author:** ![Martiju](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@Martiju](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martiju)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-feel-the-uk-earthquake/439351/18 "2008-02-27T11:36:08Z")
Worcester - house shook and things rattled for about 5 seconds. Bit startling but oddly I thought (in my half-asleep state) ‘oh, an earthquake’ then went to sleep. Cat was a bit concerned too! ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-feel-the-uk-earthquake/439351/19 "2008-02-27T11:49:35Z")
Earthquake?I just thought it was my bitch responding to the L4L Luuurve machine honey. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-feel-the-uk-earthquake/439351/20 "2008-02-27T12:12:13Z")
I’m in Rutland (East Midlands) - I knew nothing about it. Now the [Great Storm of 1987](http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/bbcweather/forecasters/michael_fish_1987storm.shtml) was different - I was in Hastings and lost loads of roof tiles, the town’s power wnet out and the streets were blocked by fallen trees… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-feel-the-uk-earthquake/439351.md?page=2)