the earth moved!!!!!!

[Guest]

i knew there would be fireworks when vana and sam finally got together but i didn't know the earth would move while they're still preparing for the meeting!!!

esp not in england!!



http://uk.news.yahoo.com/skynews/20070428/tuk-earthquake-shakes-southern-england-45dbed5.html

 

[amicus]

I thought English women showed affection for dogs and horses only?

amicus...

 

[Guest]

I thought English women showed affection for dogs and horses only?

amicus...

neither of them are english

 

[amicus]

"....esp not in england!!..."

You can understand where I was mislead.


amicus...

 

[neonlyte]

'twas in Ogg country, I guess he's ok - no serious damage or injury reported on the BBC.

 

[amicus]

Dunno, heard the Bell in the Big Ben Tower rang off key and at the wrong time, could have been a tremor of sorts...


amicus

 

[oggbashan]

Og didn't notice...

News report:

ITN - 16 minutes ago 12.24 28 April 2007
An earth tremor measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale has rocked parts of Kent.

Buildings have been damaged in the tremor with large cracks appearing in some properties and reports of chimneys being dislodged.
Some residents have been evacuated from their homes and at least one person was injured in the quake.
South East Coast Ambulance Service said one woman in her 30s suffering from a minor head injury and neck pain was taken to William Harvey Hospital in Ashford.
A spokeswoman said it sent five ambulances and three officers to the Folkestone area after it received reports at approximately 8.20am.
A spokesman for the British Geological Survey said the tremor measured an estimated 4.3 on the Richter scale, a level where structural damage would occur.
He said it was the largest in Britain since that in Dudley in 2002.
It was too early to determine the full extent of the fault area, the spokesman added, but reports were coming in from places which included Folkestone, Deal and Dover.
He said the length of time people would have felt it would depend on how near to the epicentre they were as the waves spread out.
The US Geological Survey, which monitors seismic technology around the world, said the earthquake time as 8.18am with the tremor located 15 miles south of Canterbury at a "depth" of 6.2 miles.
Fire service officials said they were being inundated with calls from residents in the Folkestone area.
A Kent Fire and Rescue Service spokesman said: "We have had calls from people saying their chimneys have fallen down, large cracks in people's houses."
Sharon Hayles, who lives in the village of Stanford near the Eurotunnel at Folkestone, said her house slid from side to side for about ten to 15 seconds.
There was no damage to her home, but she said the tremor shook the house like a "fun fair ride".
Hendrick van Eck, 27, who lives in Canterbury, said the tremor lasted a matter of seconds.
He said: "I was lying in bed and it felt as if someone had just got up from bed next to me.
"I then heard the sound of cracking, and it was getting heavier and heavier. It felt as if someone was at the end of my bed hopping up and down.
"I thought 'that must have been earthquake'. It didn't last very long, just a matter of seconds."
Householders have reported feeling the the tremor as far afield including in East Sussex, Essex and Suffolk.

I didn't notice it. I'm used to my old house shaking when heavy trucks pass by so another shake was nothing unusual. My wife, in the new house, thought a cat was scratching herself against a loose cupboard door.

A friend, visiting from Dover, said that her single storey house shook for some time, and that some of her neighbours have lost electricity and landline phones, but she has seen no damage.

I experienced an earthquake in the 1950s when living on the Rock of Gibraltar. That one was more tangible. I nearly fell out of bed.

Small earthquakes are not uncommon almost anywhere. Today's one appears to have been an inconvenience rather than a disaster.

Og

 

[Guest]

"....esp not in england!!..."

You can understand where I was mislead.


amicus...

yea. they stay in england.



glad youre ok og


still pretty weird to have quakes here.

 

[Chantilyvamp]

how do i manage to always not know when these things happen? The inlaws even said they felt small tremor but thought it was a train or something

 

[Guest]

Pu-Leeese...

In San Francisco, 4.3 wasn't even worthy of an office pool to see who guessed the magnitude closest.

 

[matriarch]

News report:

ITN - 16 minutes ago 12.24 28 April 2007
An earth tremor measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale has rocked parts of Kent.

Buildings have been damaged in the tremor with large cracks appearing in some properties and reports of chimneys being dislodged.
Some residents have been evacuated from their homes and at least one person was injured in the quake.
South East Coast Ambulance Service said one woman in her 30s suffering from a minor head injury and neck pain was taken to William Harvey Hospital in Ashford.
A spokeswoman said it sent five ambulances and three officers to the Folkestone area after it received reports at approximately 8.20am.
A spokesman for the British Geological Survey said the tremor measured an estimated 4.3 on the Richter scale, a level where structural damage would occur.
He said it was the largest in Britain since that in Dudley in 2002.
It was too early to determine the full extent of the fault area, the spokesman added, but reports were coming in from places which included Folkestone, Deal and Dover.
He said the length of time people would have felt it would depend on how near to the epicentre they were as the waves spread out.
The US Geological Survey, which monitors seismic technology around the world, said the earthquake time as 8.18am with the tremor located 15 miles south of Canterbury at a "depth" of 6.2 miles.
Fire service officials said they were being inundated with calls from residents in the Folkestone area.
A Kent Fire and Rescue Service spokesman said: "We have had calls from people saying their chimneys have fallen down, large cracks in people's houses."
Sharon Hayles, who lives in the village of Stanford near the Eurotunnel at Folkestone, said her house slid from side to side for about ten to 15 seconds.
There was no damage to her home, but she said the tremor shook the house like a "fun fair ride".
Hendrick van Eck, 27, who lives in Canterbury, said the tremor lasted a matter of seconds.
He said: "I was lying in bed and it felt as if someone had just got up from bed next to me.
"I then heard the sound of cracking, and it was getting heavier and heavier. It felt as if someone was at the end of my bed hopping up and down.
"I thought 'that must have been earthquake'. It didn't last very long, just a matter of seconds."
Householders have reported feeling the the tremor as far afield including in East Sussex, Essex and Suffolk.

I didn't notice it. I'm used to my old house shaking when heavy trucks pass by so another shake was nothing unusual. My wife, in the new house, thought a cat was scratching herself against a loose cupboard door.

A friend, visiting from Dover, said that her single storey house shook for some time, and that some of her neighbours have lost electricity and landline phones, but she has seen no damage.

I experienced an earthquake in the 1950s when living on the Rock of Gibraltar. That one was more tangible. I nearly fell out of bed.

Small earthquakes are not uncommon almost anywhere. Today's one appears to have been an inconvenience rather than a disaster.

Og

Just got up here in Phoenix to the news report . So very glad to hear that you and yours are ok Og.

 

[matriarch]

Pu-Leeese...

In San Francisco, 4.3 wasn't even worthy of an office pool to see who guessed the magnitude closest.

We;re aware of that.
Earthquakes rarely happen in UK, hence the interest.
My main concern was Og (and also Goldie Munro) and their safety.

 

[RedHairedandFriendly]

I was in one once. . .it made the bed shiver a little, that was all and it was barely touched on during the news that afternoon.

Tornadoes are what we experience more in Indiana than anything else.

 

[Dar~]

I worked in a Wal-mart while living in AK and I was sitting on the floor checking in fabric and one happened that was fairly severe and the bikes hanging above me on the ceiling were swaying dangerously . . .I was frightened.

Another on happened up there the same day we moved into our apartment and we were weaiting for the movers. Well, the movers told us anytime between 8am and 9pm so we were bored with nothing (literally, but the game of life. after playing that sixty times, I hoped up on the counter and was just going to sit when all the cupboards started shaking (at the exact same time my ass made contact with the counter. I was Like "Honey, I'm not that chunky am I?"

The only other one I recall was one that jolted me awake when my daughter was four days old and I freaked out, scared her to death in waking her up and ran and hid under our dining room table.



Vana and Sam you really should be more cautious.

 

[oggbashan]

It's nice to know that we keep records:

It may not have been a large earthquake, but we don't throw our old files away...

"Damaging earthquakes are rare but not unknown in the UK, and the Kent region is one of those areas that has experienced them before," said Professor Bill McGuire, the director of Benfield UCL Hazard Research Centre.

"Two big quakes shook the Dover Straits in 1382 and 1580, reportedly causing widespread damage in adjacent areas of England and France."

McGuire said the largest recent tremor in Britain was the 1931 Dogger Bank earthquake, which measured 6.1 on the Richter scale and was felt in France and Belgium."

Og

 

[Fallenfromgrace]

I didnt know about this till i was told by a yank in yankeeland on the phone lol...

glad no real damage was done and all are ok

 

[Guest]

"Damaging earthquakes are rare but not unknown in the UK,

I'm glad everyone is okay. I didn't mean to demean the possible danger.

Certain places get quakes more often than others but every where can get them. The most powerful in the continental US happened in Missouri, not California. The Mississippi ran backwards for several days. But it happened in the early 19th century when the area was sparsely populated, so it isn't as well known.

New York City is apparently overdue for a 7.0 quake. They happen, according to studies of the strata, about every 350 years. The Dutch recorded one in 1650. New York's already aging infrastructure is not nearly built to the same code as San Francisco's. The 7.1 quake of 1989 killed about 63. In New York, apparently a quake of the same magnitude could kill thousands.

 

[3113]

As a Native Californian, I salute those of you in England. A 7.5 is a very respectable Earthquake ...and I've no doubt far more damaging there than where I live if most of the homes were brick. Brick comes right on down in an Earthquake.

Glad everyone's okay. Hang tight, there's bound to be a few aftershocks before things settle back down.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

As a Native Californian, I salute those of you in England. A 7.5 is a very respectable Earthquake ...and I've no doubt far more damaging there than where I live if most of the homes were brick. Brick comes right on down in an Earthquake.

Glad everyone's okay. Hang tight, there's bound to be a few aftershocks before things settle back down.

It was a 4.5 that was 7 .5 miles from something else...

 

[3113]

It was a 4.5 that was 7 .5 miles from something else...

Ah. My bad there, I must have seen the 7.5 and mistaken it.

4.5 isn't so bad either. And, again, if the buildings aren't earthquake ready, can bring a lot of things down.

 

[cloudy]

Ah. My bad there, I must have seen the 7.5 and mistaken it.

4.5 isn't so bad either. And, again, if the buildings aren't earthquake ready, can bring a lot of things down.

indeed....look what happened in the last 'frisco quake, and the one in northridge.

I lived in the Valley back in the early 70's (1970 or 71) when we had that bad one that brought all the overpasses crashing down. Didn't do much to our house except open all the cabinets in the kitchen, and fling their contents around. Most houses in SoCal of fairly recent vintage are built to really, really strict earthquake codes.

 

[amicus]

My apologies to the thread starter, I thought your post was a play on words, not the real thing.

The tremor now rated at 4.3 occurred off the coast near Dover, England and is said to be the strongest in over 400 years. Even got brief coverage on Fox news with an image of some masonry on the street.

amicus....

 

[Xelebes]

I've never heard of earthquakes happening here. So... uh... I don't know what I'm missing.

Actually, we felt the 1992 earthquake that happened in Los Angeles.

And apparently our house has damage from the 1970 Alaskan earthquake.