Only about half of the Dudley Earthquake post was intelligible, but I could tell it was funny. Someone here could do an American translation.
As a native Californian, I will magnanimously descend upon this thread and grant that a 5.1 is noteworthy, even in California.
We have about 200 each year in the UK but the vast number of these are so small as to be likened to a bee landing on a nettle and screaming “ouch”
Wimbledon in south London and I slept through it.
Funny thing about this, reading through the comments on the BBC website after some points made about the damage and injuries someone posted “Imagine what would happen if we had a REAL earthquake in this country, we wouldn’t know what to do!”. Well the reason people “don’t know what to do” in an earthquake in the uK is because this isn’t a country that suffers from them - duh! 5 on the richter scale and some minor damage to buildings is about as serious as it gets.
Unless they find a fault running through Birmingham or something I think we should be more worried about other pressing issues, like flooding perhaps.
Ah but there is a fault running through Brummigham, It’s known as Villa Park
Ba da boom chish.
Isle of Man.
I felt it. It was very slight though
The 2002 Dudley quake happened on my first night in Birmingham as a grad student. At that time, my new place was about 12 miles from the epicentre. Was woken up to see the entire room swaying from side to side. I was seriously spooked till the next morning…
Yes, I do. I remember waking up randomly in the middle of the night, seconds before it started, then when it started, I was praying for it to stop before things started caving in such as the bedroom ceiling, and then suddenly it stopped, then I fell back to sleep again.
In the morning, I was laughed at, told it must be a dream, until it was reported on the morning news.
… you’ve been waiting a while to say that, haven’t you?
I thought we’d had another crap earthquake for a minute then.
(In case anyone’s interested, I do remember it- it woke me up, I thought it was an unusually large lorry, fell back asleep, in Manchester. It was mostly memorable for the glorious outpouring of sarcasm it triggered.)