Earthquake In The Uk

[slayerdiabolus]

The biggest earthquake in the UK for nearly 25 years has shaken homes across large parts of the country.

People in Newcastle, Yorkshire, London, Cumbria, the Midlands, Norfolk and also parts of Wales, felt the tremor just before 0100 GMT.

A man suffered a broken pelvis when a chimney collapsed in South Yorkshire.

The British Geological Survey (BGS) said the epicentre of the 5.2 magnitude quake was near Market Rasen in Lincolnshire.

Davie Galloway, seismologist for the BGS, said people had reported feeling the tremor from as far as Bangor in Northern Ireland to the west, Haarlem in Holland to the east, Plymouth to the south and Edinburgh to the north.

Student David Bates, 19, suffered a broken pelvis when he was pinned under masonry in his attic bedroom in Barnsley Road, Wombwell, South Yorks.

His father Paul Bates said: "There was a rumble and then we heard a bang and my son screaming 'Dad'."

His son was taken to hospital and was due to undergo surgery later.

Thank god I don't live in the UK!

[Pete-Rock]

I heard it on the news this morning. Horrible!

[metmum]

It wasn't an earthquake, it was a tremor. it did wake me up, but it didn't feel any worse than the one that we had a few years back (the epicenter then was Dudley).

[Bob Garage]

its the third earthquake i've lived through now....

1990 - epicentre was Shrewsbury. (about 20 miles from me)
I was at school I remember being outside the classroom using the gilloteen (sp?). i didn't feel a thing but everyone came running out of the classrooms screaming earthquake.

2001 - epicentre dudley. (about 20 miles from me)
happened about 6am i slept through it.

2008 - epicentre grimsby (a good 100+ miles from me).
was woken up by it at 12:58. Sounded like a truck had driven into the house. I was half asleep, thought oh another earthquake and went back to sleep.

[metmum]

I remember the 1990 one, we felt it at work but we had a big opencast site just behind where we worked and sometimes we could feel the blasts if they were close so we just thought it was them blasting nearby.

[Pete-Rock]

It wasn't an earthquake, it was a tremor.

Which seems to be the same.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index ... 755AAe6Vd0

[LeperMessiah26]

What made me laugh though,is on GMTV,a reporter was showing the "Damage" it made,and the most you saw,was a few wobbley chimney stacks!!

No one died,you can count on one hand the amount of people who got hurt,and the *Damage* was virtually non existent....im pretty near Barnsley,in Sheffield,and it lasted no longer than 5 seconds...and just made the windows shake a little

Compare that to other countries,where people die,get severly injured,buildings get ruined,motorways get demolished,they last a hell of a lot longer....and i think us brits need to chill a little!

[metmum]

What made me laugh though,is on GMTV,a reporter was showing the "Damage" it made,and the most you saw,was a few wobbley chimney stacks!!

No one died,you can count on one hand the amount of people who got hurt,and the *Damage* was virtually non existent....im pretty near Barnsley,in Sheffield,and it lasted no longer than 5 seconds...and just made the windows shake a little

Compare that to other countries,where people die,get severly injured,buildings get ruined,motorways get demolished,they last a hell of a lot longer....and i think us brits need to chill a little!

Yeah I thought the same, now the Insurance companies are saying, oh there's millions of pounds worth of damage. What for a few chimney stacks?

[slayerdiabolus]

Chimney stacks must have gone up in value since last time I checked