cartesiandaemon

Nope, didn't feel a thing. What was it?

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See below for theories, and a "Cambridge structural integrity" icon :)

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Yes - and I've looked out of the window and can't see any giant lizards striding down Newmarket Road so I conclude it was a small earthquake.

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:)

I couldn't decide between:

* Sudden shifting of structure of house foundation causing it to become able to resonate with washing machine
* My overtired mind
* Small (compared to how close it was) earthquake
* Nuclear test somewhere near Peterborough

I'm glad to have confirmation (at least a little) that so far my mind seems to just be on the "reliably predict the universe" side of madness rather than the reverse.

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I wasn't sure where to go to check. Obviously IRC or IM if I was using one, but I wasn't. LJ if someone is reading. But I want something like Wikipedia for breaking but inconsequential news.

Aha! Of course, the main bottleneck is that Google doesn't index fast enough so you can't navigate Wikipedia. But my faith should not have been shaken.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_the_United_Kingdom There is it is. Someone really got it down before the earth stopped shaking (I think). It might not be permanently notable, but that's what I wanted to know, right there, in real time. Wow.

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breaking but inconsequential news

Would LOL but don't want to wake ms_cataclysm :-)

Things you don't have to worry about while flying, #17: Earthquakes.

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:)

ROFL. Yes. Although, you know, surely in a place is pretty safe from earthquakes? Admittedly, you're screwed when you want to land. But I'm not worried about the actual flying and don't want to start now. I've no figures on the number of Swedish air passengers killed by earthquakes in the last 100 years, but I'm betting it's zero :)

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5.3 is big little quake. (At home google comes up with this: http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/ page so it's easy to find out how big that bump was)

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We like to lay these things on to make you feel at home :) That sounds about right.

I couldn't work out, do you know how does it fall off with distance? Here it certainly felt really weird, like the world was wobbling, but not spectacularly so.

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I know a little quake nearby makes bigger impression then larger quake father away, but couldn't quanify it for you.

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Hmm, I'm in High Wycombe (between Reading and London) and was talking to my other half in Bristol - neither of us felt the earth move. I feel cheated now.

Though there is one on that list that I do remember feeling - when I was in Manchester in 1984 it would seem.

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Oh, hm. Wikipedia reported it being felt all over. Maybe you were in well cushioned buildings, or just didn't notice, it was more weird than obvious here.

I'm sure I only remember one, one of the tiddly midlands ones. I was nearly asleep at the time, so thought I may have dreamed it until I checked the next morning. But this time, rather than thinking "Huh? Wow, must actually be an earthquake, maybe," I thought "Wow, feels just like the other one, must be another earthquake, hei-ho" :)

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Apparently the one I live with felt 'something but I didn't notice until you mentioned it', in the next room. That's kind of been my experience of the things before - not sure I really felt something until someone else confirmed it.

I didn't feel it, neither did other half in Bristol.

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I felt it it a little south of you in Langley, but was half asleep and put it down to my imagination until seeing it in the news this morning.

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Ah well, I'll just have to wait for another one and hope I notice that.

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Ah! When I got the comment notification I thought you meant a little south of me and was confused :)

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Was initially reported at 5.5 Richter, now downgraded to 4.7. Was definitely an earthquake, and yes, I felt it. Strongest quake I can remember, though that's "of two", so...

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:)

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Well, I don't know about the time, but while I was reading in bed earlier (so between 00:00 and 01:30, certainy) I felt a wobble like a bus going past, except that I no longer live on a bus route. I thought I must be tired and imagining things, but now that seems rather coincidental.

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I think so :)

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Damn, I felt nothing. But I was in a club at the time - presumably we just interpreted it as part of the beat :-) I remember the 1990 one - I was painting, in my parents' house in Buckinghamshire, in a partly refurbished room, standing barefoot on the concrete foundations (I guess I was that kind of teenager). I thought a lorry had gone past outside, except I saw no lorry.

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*hugs* There's no particular reason one should want to hear it, but it does feel like missing out. In England, we have earthquakaes like we have weather: normally just a source of conversation and very mind inconvenience :)

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i must have just dropped off to sleep, so clearly it didn't hit Bristol strongly enough to wake either me or Pete up...

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Yes, I did. BTW, shortly afterwards, I got a text message from you with content "on way". I theorised it was Saturday's text message about jogging that had been delayed 3 days or so.

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LOL. Yes. Apparently it was jarred loose or something.

(I saw it may not have sent at the time, but I thought it did when I got home. But maybe not.)

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Thanks for correctly assuming I wasn't coming now :)

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I did, and so did most people I was in contact with on IRC at the time.

http://geofon.gfz-potsdam.de/db/eqinfo.php lists all the earthquake warnings for the world, and as of now the UK one is about eighth on the list.

Since last night the BBC have added a story about the earthquake.

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Yes - it woke me up. See post! :-)

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I didn't notice it, but I was probably asleep by 1am.

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BGS questionnaire: http://www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/questionnaire/EqQuestIntroA.html

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Thank you. It crashed when I was filling it in, probably overloaded :(

For a moment I was suspicious, it would be a great email harvesting site, wouldn't it, as everyone blearily rushes to feel like they're part of the event. But .ac have to be serious, don't they?

And I did wonder if asking people what it felt like for them was the most useful way to find out, but then, I suppose if you want to measure how it actually felt, rather than just what happened to seismographs, then that is the only and best way to do it.

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The BGS are good people. The father of a childhood friend worked there (possibly still does).

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