QUAKE!!!

Andy Burns · Joined: 07 Jan 2008 Posts: 304

bloody hell, I've felt an earth tremor before, but that one just woke me
up while I was in bed, and I felt it jerking my whole bed up and down
for about 10 seconds,

bgs wibble seemed to be in meltdown by the time I booted up PC

Archived from group: uk>rec>sheds

robertharvey · Joined: 04 Aug 2007 Posts: 420

On 27 Feb, 01:06, Andy Burns wrote:
> bloody hell, I've felt an earth tremor before, but that one just woke me
> up while I was in bed, and I felt it jerking my whole bed up and down
> for about 10 seconds,
>
> bgs wibble seemed to be in meltdown by the time I booted up PC

Aye, it woke me up.
Seems to have been in Lincoln :
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2008nyae.php

I can't get to the BGS either

robertharvey · Joined: 04 Aug 2007 Posts: 420

On 27 Feb, 01:41, roberthar...@my-deja.com wrote:
> I can't get to the BGS either

http://www.emsc-csem.org/index.php?page=current&sub=detail&id=79520

Andy Burns · Joined: 07 Jan 2008 Posts: 304

On 27/02/2008 01:41, robertharvey@my-deja.com wrote:

> Aye, it woke me up.

Funny, usually I'm pretty groggy for a few seconds after my zeds are
rudely interrupted, but I knew straight away what it was, I just laid
there "soaking it up", when it stopped I peered out of window expecting
neighbours to be doing same, or rajo to mention it, but no confirmation
for several minutes *then* I started wondering if I'd imagined it ...

Andy Burns · Joined: 07 Jan 2008 Posts: 304

On 27/02/2008 01:48, robertharvey@my-deja.com wrote:

> I can't get to the BGS either

Their wibble is /just/ creeping back into life,

e.g from Charnwood Forest recorder
http://www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/helicorder/heli_dir_shz/CWF_SHZ_GB_00.2008022700.gif

robertharvey · Joined: 04 Aug 2007 Posts: 420

On 27 Feb, 02:13, Andy Burns wrote:
> On 27/02/2008 01:48, roberthar...@my-deja.com wrote:
>
> > I can't get to the BGS either
>
> Their wibble is /just/ creeping back into life,
>
> e.g from Charnwood Forest recorderhttp://www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/helicorder/heli_dir_shz/CWF_SHZ_GB_0...

That's a helluva record - over a minute of heavy shakng. Still, that
was my experience

Paul C. Dickie · Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 246

In message , Andy Burns
writes
>bloody hell, I've felt an earth tremor before, but that one just woke
>me up while I was in bed, and I felt it jerking my whole bed up and
>down for about 10 seconds,

Should we be glad or depressed that Uhyy isn't to be engulfed by a
gfhanzv?

--

Andy Burns · Joined: 07 Jan 2008 Posts: 304

On 27/02/2008 02:29, robertharvey@my-deja.com wrote:

> On 27 Feb, 02:13, Andy Burns wrote:
>
>> e.g from Charnwood Forest recorder
>
> That's a helluva record - over a minute of heavy shakng.

Looking back over the last week or so of recordings, no pre-shocks, but
it's noticible that you can spot (what I assume is) traffic rumble
during pbzzhgr periods.

Don Stockbauer · Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 130

On Feb 26, 8:29 pm, "Paul C. Dickie" wrote:
> In message , Andy Burns
> writes
>
> >bloody hell, I've felt an earth tremor before, but that one just woke
> >me up while I was in bed, and I felt it jerking my whole bed up and
> >down for about 10 seconds,
>
> Should we be glad or depressed that Uhyy isn't to be engulfed by a
> gfhanzv?
>

Felt nothing here (Texas). Must be on good terms with God. He must
be quite forgiving.

The Stainless Steel Cat · Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 16

In article ,
Andy Burns wrote:

>bloody hell, I've felt an earth tremor before, but that one just woke me
>up while I was in bed, and I felt it jerking my whole bed up and down
>for about 10 seconds,

Massive Earthwobble In England!

Casualties estimated in the dozens of chimneypots!

Worldwide appeal for blanket... coverage in the media!

Indonesian authorities state "Monday's magnitude 7 quake here and the 11
other quakes we've had in the last four days all greater than magnitude 5,
pale into insignificance compared with the terror faced by the poor
inhabitants of England. Our hearts go out to them."

Cat. ;o)

wafflycat · Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 27

"Andy Burns" wrote in message @corp.supernews.com...
> bloody hell, I've felt an earth tremor before, but that one just woke me
> up while I was in bed, and I felt it jerking my whole bed up and down for
> about 10 seconds,
>
> bgs wibble seemed to be in meltdown by the time I booted up PC
>

It woke the residents of Chateau Wafflycat down here in Norfolk, with both
noise & movement. One of my cats remained stuck to me for the rest of the
night: a good limpit impersonation, but the other two were not bothered in
the slightest.

robertharvey · Joined: 04 Aug 2007 Posts: 420

On 27 Feb, 06:34, steel...@atuin.demon.co.uk (The Stainless Steel Cat)
wrote:
> Massive Earthwobble In England!
>
> Casualties estimated in the dozens of chimneypots!
>
> Worldwide appeal for blanket... coverage in the media!
>
> Indonesian authorities state "Monday's magnitude 7 quake here and the 11
> other quakes we've had in the last four days all greater than magnitude 5,
> pale into insignificance compared with the terror faced by the poor
> inhabitants of England. Our hearts go out to them."

There's one street in Gainsborough with more OB vans than fallen
chimmney pots.

Poor old Market Rasen, where it was worst, seems not to be on TV's
map.

Melanie Rimmer · Joined: 22 Aug 2007 Posts: 93

Guy King wrote:
> The message
> from "wafflycat" contains these words:
>
>> It woke the residents of Chateau Wafflycat down here in Norfolk,
>
> I slept throught it, which is odd, 'cos I usually wake on tremors.
>
Don't you just love the English? Here's a quote from the BBC news story
about it:
David Somerset, 41, from Driffield near Beverley in East Yorkshire,
said: "I have never felt one as strong as that one before. I was in my
sitting room and the grandfather clock was rattling rather violently."

Frank Erskine · Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 236

On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:20:08 +0000, Melanie Rimmer
wrote:

>Guy King wrote:
>> The message
>> from "wafflycat" contains these words:
>>
>>> It woke the residents of Chateau Wafflycat down here in Norfolk,
>>
>> I slept throught it, which is odd, 'cos I usually wake on tremors.
>>
>Don't you just love the English? Here's a quote from the BBC news story
>about it:
>David Somerset, 41, from Driffield near Beverley in East Yorkshire,
>said: "I have never felt one as strong as that one before. I was in my
>sitting room and the grandfather clock was rattling rather violently."

I wonder why journos insist on quoting the Richter scale whilst
seismologists always use the Mercalli one.

--
Frank Erskine
MJBC, OETKBC

Dave Larrington · Joined: 04 Aug 2007 Posts: 93

In @q78g2000hsh.googlegroups.com,
robertharvey@my-deja.com tweaked the
Babbage-Engine to tell us:
> On 27 Feb, 01:06, Andy Burns wrote:
>> bloody hell, I've felt an earth tremor before, but that one just
>> woke me up while I was in bed, and I felt it jerking my whole bed up
>> and down for about 10 seconds,
>>
>> bgs wibble seemed to be in meltdown by the time I booted up PC
>
> Aye, it woke me up.
> Seems to have been in Lincoln

Market Rasen according to the WWP arjs this a.m.

--
Dave Larrington

And then there was light and He thought it was good, so He threw
the receipt away.

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