Manchester, Uk. 01.00am 27/2/2008
We just had an earthquake. Thought it was heavy feet next door but then things started to move sideways. Wow. Things were shaking. I felt the earth move. Lasted 5 or 6 seconds.
Never felt one in the Uk before.
Small beer compared to those in other countries, but quite interesting.
Just seen a story about one at 12:53 measuring 4,8 on the BBC, but this was 7 minutes later than the story and I guess bigger
Nao
PS and a little aftershock just then.
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Ignore the 12.53 AM part of that. Me messing up an internet search. Quake was just the 1.00AM event.
Now wondering how big the shock was and where epicentre was.
Nao
Must be this one?
btw a few years ago I felt one in southeast Michigan here, which at first I thought was “heavy feet” as you said. Turned out to have been a tremor centered in Tennessee as I recall. I believe that’s the one and only time I ever experienced one.
Thanks.
Yes: that looks like it. Centred maybe 80 or 90 miles from here.
Nao
I’ve experienced 2 or 3 in Southern Ontario.
Nothing more than equivalence of a large truck making your house vibrate as it drives by.
Man, i can only imagine what its like to be in the middle of an earthquake. 
Here in Oz, the most we’ll get is aftershocks from neighbouring countries who sit on a fault line.
BBC report:
I would expect some property damage, because a smaller one last year in Kent (Mag. 4.3 ), left 70 odd buildings too dangerous to stay in.
are there any Atheists in an Earthquake?
Yes.
Glad you’re ok Naomi.
Has anyone ridden a unicycle during an earthquake?
The only time I had one I almost didn’t know it happened. I was asleep and it was about 3 in the morning, everything was virbrating but I was convinced I was still asleep and dreaming. Then later the next day someone was like, hey did you feel the earthquake.
Neat things when nobody is hurt.
O and I think I had another one when I was younger to, but I might be wrong.
I wouldn’t know if I felt a small earthquake or not. I’ve been living about fifty meters from some railway tracks for almost ten years and it probably feels like a small tremor.
The earthquake hit Lincolnshire, which is 50 or so miles east of me. The tremor here felt and sounded at first like a large truck or bus immediately outside the house, rattling the windows. Then it grew in intensity until the whole house was vibrating. No damage. I worked out within a few seconds that it must have been either an earthquake or a nuclear strike on nearby Bilsthorpe. Unfortunately, it was the earthquake.
In the UK, we only play at these things. A few people will be claiming of their insurance for broken Crown Derby and Royal Doulton. People in Los Angeles and Pakistan will sneer and say, “Call that an earthquake? Pah!”
Yes Billy. I remained steadfast in my disbelief in a God throughout last night. Latest figures on BBC from British Geological Survey suggest magnitude was 5.3. One person with known injury when a chimney decided to get into bed with him, via the roof. Quite a lot of chimneys downed. But at 5.3 still a small quake by world standards.
When I lived in the Philippines I felt MUCH larger shocks, and once was evacuated from near Mayon volcano, which subsequently, just a few days later, rather messed up my brother’s farm, burying much of it. Some years ago my dad’s house had an inch of dust on its roof from Pinatubo. But we were a long way from the real devastation that caused. Not once did I feel there was, or might be a God.
I would need a lot of convincing for such, and nothing has come close yet, nothing has even so much as poked its head over the horizon.
A serious answer to a jesting enquiry Billy …sorry. 
Nao
That’s been asked before and I don’t think anyone’s managed the presence of mind to make it to a uni while the tremors lasted.
I stand to be corrected tho.
POST SEARCH: CATBOY’s been thrown from his uni during an earthquake.
awakening is a very slow process for me but I have experienced some small earthquakes and I can assure you I am instantly awake and by the door in a second!
As a little boy I lived in Agadir Morocco … but wasn’t there when the big earthquake hit … a student of my mother was picked up alive amongst the bricks one week after! I wasn’t allowed to visit the city afterwards …good thing.
before that I had experienced a small tsunami on the beach at the same place … I still have nightmares about it (though nobody was hurt).
The morning news was reporting one injured leg across the entire country.
My brother and a couple of friends were woken up by it. We do indeed only play at these things in the UK, when we get a tornado it damages about 8 houses (except for '86), our flooding leaves thousands damp.
I once experienced one, but it was very short and weak. Just a floor nudge. I wonder what a stronger one does to your balance on a unicycle 
Living in the Pacific Northwest, on top of a major subduction zone in an area with many faults, I’ve felt many earthquakes. Most were small but two stand out in my memory:
The 1965 quake: I was sleeping in our rec-room and was woken by the quake. My 3 older sisters had large stackable doll-bunkbeds, when I openned my eyes they were rocking back and forth; fortunately the did not topple onto me. I was only 5 but that is a distinct memory.
The other is the more recent 2001 Nisqualie earthquake. I was on an upper floor of a downtown high rise office building. As soon as we realized it was a quake we dove under our desks; got some pretty good sway action out of that one.
I was brushing my teeth when the earthquake happened at 1:00am. It was really quite scary as Iv’e never felt one before. The mirror infront of me was shaking about so my reflection was going all over the place.