Earthquake?!?!?!!?

[PuddleJumper]

I guess it depends on how deep your sleep is. Some of the people I work with slept right through it and didn't know until they heard the news this morning, whereas others were woken by it.

[Brown, Jon Brow]

I can't understand how it could wake you up. This year we've already had an 4.8 and an 4.7 earthquake and nobody felt them. We know about them from the papers. Probably it's a matter of experience.

Where do you live?

[Hazell B]

Is Hull a seismic active area?

Only when the pubs turn out :

I'm about 40 miles from the Lincs probable epicentre, 25 miles from Hull's other possible epicentre and it wasn't actually that bad to be fair. Maybe 20 seconds of the house shaking about and furnature moving a bit, then calm. Not even felt the aftershocks we had here, but they've clearly happened as the river's silt was swirling about on and off all morning.

There's a minor crack appeared between my 8 year old barn and the building we finished in October and that's all the damage I've heard about. Those two buildings would have settled in spring anyway, so it's no problem at all. One of my dogs was annoyed at being woken up, the other went straight back to sleep, just like myself and my partner :

National news has reported people out in the streets screaming.
Lightweights :

[Daniel]

National news has reported people out in the streets screaming.
Lightweights :

Reminds me of this Simpsons quote

Kent Brockman: Hordes of panicky people seem to be evacuating the town for some unknown reason. Professor, without knowing precisely what the danger is, would you say it's time for our viewers to crack each other's heads open and feast on the goo inside?
Professor: Yes I would, Kent.

[Sleeper]

Once again I slept through an earthquake.

[RaikkonenRules]

Got a good 30 secs in Newark.

The epicenter was confirmed between Market Rasen and Wragby in Lincolnshire. That's only about 30 miles from me.

[GridGirl]

I didn't feel it. I don't think it was significant enough to warrant so much air time on the news and radio this morning. By 9am I was ready to scream if I heard another story about someones parrot falling off its perch.

My house is roughly 200m away from where they pinpointed the epicentre of a 5.0 earthquake a few years ago. The earth did move for me that day

[Mp3 Astra]

Some of my friends felt it - a bit disappointed because I was awake half an hour earier...

But it's good that nobody was hurt!

[Hazell B]

But it's good that nobody was hurt!

I was thinking about that. Imagine the death toll if it had happened during school run/rush hour? Cars would have been bouncing off each other, people hit by falling chimmney stacks .... nasty.

How come earthquakes always seem to happen during darker hours? Is it something to do with the sun's heat making things expand then contract? Or gravity?

[Mp3 Astra]

I was thinking about that. Imagine the death toll if it had happened during school run/rush hour? Cars would have been bouncing off each other, people hit by falling chimmney stacks .... nasty.

How come earthquakes always seem to happen during darker hours? Is it something to do with the sun's heat making things expand then contract? Or gravity?

That is a good point. I don't know the reason for it though - maybe our resident geology student can shed some light on that. Or maybe it's just a coincidence.