Did the earth move for you too...?

[Chantal]

I woke up in the night, thinking Rosie cat had fallen off the dressing table and taken half the contents with her, and promptly fell out of bed. Having found Rosie actually in my bed looking puzzled I got back in and went back to sleep.

Turns out this morning there was an earthquake last night

I must say it makes me feel a bit less stupid this morning

[KGAdmin]

Yeah we really got shaken - I live just outside Skegness, and it woke me up in an instant - several of our internal doors rattled like mad.

Defiantly a very odd feeling - kinda wish it had happened during the day when you could see stuff shaking - rather then stumbling out of bed going 'What the hell is that???'


KGAmin

[Piglet]

Ha, I was at work last night, in a quarry I might add and the earth usually moves at 1.30pm every day when we blast, so the 1am rumble was a bit disconcerting to say the least.

[seedling]

It woke me up and i thought i was going mad. thought "that feels like an earthquake - no cant be"
Glad to hear i wasnt imagining it and am not going mad.
Seedling

[oldherbaceous]

I thought it was some cunning plan, organized by some of the forum members to try and capture me whilst i slept.

[lizzie]

The bedroom door started rattling away quite violently and I thought it was Little Andrew sleepwalking again (he does occasionally) Shouted out if he was alright, got a grunt (which turned out to be Big Andrew) and then I fell back asleep.

Woke up and the news said we'd had an earthquake.

Now that Herby has mentioned it, it sounds like a very cunning plan. Maybe me and Grock will think it through more

[Clive.]

Hello,
It gave us a good shaking here...

It was interesting in that I was also awake in an instant...perhaps there was an initial noise before the shaking.??
Mum commented similarly as she was awoken and had pulled the light on prior to the shaking.
The shaking subsided but then briefly intensified again before ceasing.
It was certainly quite frightening and the noise, seemingly from up in the roof, made me feel that there would be damage done.

It certainly had upset the local pheasants and geese....
...and plenty of folk were out in the street immediately after.

I looked at an online list that described effects relative to earthquake scales and it seemed to be similar to that for about 4.8 or 5...and this was confirmed when initial reports on Radio Five from US sources suggested 4.7...

Meanwhile, when I got to work my work colleague reported not having heard a thing..he reckoned he was sound asleep after a day of using the turf lifter.

C.

[Monika]

I was fast asleep, hubby still up (doing a crossword, I think). Apparently, the whole table shook in front of him - very disconcerting. He called up to me because I had stirred in bed, but, having been rather busy outside all day, I hadn't fully woken up and certainly can't claim to have felt anything!

[Shallot Man]

I might have said this to the Memsahib when we were first married. shallotman

[Tigger]

Neither of us noticed anything.

Mind you, we were the ones, some years ago, who went down to breakfast in a hotel in Amsterdam to be met with rapturous applause. There'd been a fire alarm during the night and the hotel was evacuated, but they couldn't raise us by any means, so decided to leave us to burn!

[Stephen]

Oh yes.
Certainly awoke me here in Berkhamsted (which is more than the fairly nearby Buncefield explosion did!)

[Monika]

Writing of Buncefield: my daughter in Harrogate (200 miles from Buncefield??) happened to lie awake when THAT went up and she heard a sort of dull thud and woke her husband up because she couldn't work out what it might have been (they live in a very quiet area!). And then, next morning, they heard about the explosion on the news. Amazing, isn't it?

[PLUMPUDDING]

My sister-in-law had been staying over night and asked why the bedroom had been shaking at 1 am she thought it was a ghost! I'm afraid we'd been out celebrating my birthday and never heard a thing, but the whole of the rest of the neighbourhood had got up and switched their lights on to see what was happening so I'm told.

I did notice that it had shaken all the pictures crooked when I checked for any damage.

[lizzie]

I must say that it's the only time my bedrooms shook for some time

[oldherbaceous]

Dear Lizzie, i have heard town folk have a lack of their bedrooms shaking as they get on in years.
Of course this is not a problem in the Country.

Have you ever thought of moving nearer to a train station, this should give you a regular shaking, so to speak.