Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. Flexible and made to last.

Meet the Other Phone.
Flexible and made to last.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Chat

Join the discussion and chat with other Mumsnetters about everyday life, relationships and parenting.

Original poster

I'm sure I just felt an earthquake!

46 replies

Bramblegins · 21/02/2022 23:31

It's been years since the last one I felt

Used to live in a country that had many so kind of familiar feeling, but so out of place here in England.

Anyine else?

OP posts:
AledsiPad · 21/02/2022 23:32

Might need to narrow down ‘England’ slightly, OP. If I’m on the south coast and you’re in North Yorkshire it’s unlikely we’ll have felt the same… (I didn’t).

LizziesTwin · 21/02/2022 23:33

3.2 earthquake in the midlands Earthquake

Uttoxerly · 21/02/2022 23:34

You absolutely did. 2259 on the dot, 3.2 magnitude epicentre 2 miles south of Walsall apparently. It’s the oddest thing I’ve ever felt!

Original poster
Bramblegins · 21/02/2022 23:34

@AledsiPad

Might need to narrow down ‘England’ slightly, OP. If I’m on the south coast and you’re in North Yorkshire it’s unlikely we’ll have felt the same… (I didn’t).
True, apologies.

Birmingham area

OP posts:
Original poster
Bramblegins · 21/02/2022 23:35

@Uttoxerly

You absolutely did. 2259 on the dot, 3.2 magnitude epicentre 2 miles south of Walsall apparently. It’s the oddest thing I’ve ever felt!
Ahha yes, that's where I am. Blinking heck.
OP posts:
Uttoxerly · 21/02/2022 23:37

My mind is blown 😂 We’re on the Dudley/South Staffs border

gogohm · 21/02/2022 23:38

They feel weird don't they, we had a 4.2 in Leicester a few years back. But I've been in a proper one overseas and they feel quite different

Eggsley · 21/02/2022 23:41

They're so odd aren't they?!

There was one in Market Rasen in Lincolnshire a few years ago, we felt it in Kettering - it was so weird, it woke us up. All the neighbours went outside into the street at 1am wondering what on earth was happening.

Powaqa · 21/02/2022 23:43

You did and so did I. My whole house shuddered. So bloody unnerving

LemonViolet · 21/02/2022 23:43

Looking at this they happen all the blinking time. This wasn’t even the first one in the U.K. today!

earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/earthquakes/recent_uk_events.html?_ga=2.89130651.1462822213.1645486877-83138220.1645486877

BluebellsGreenbells · 21/02/2022 23:45

Last one near me was 20 years ago. Just had a baby so slept through it! Apparently the wardrobes were shaking.

ButteryNuts · 21/02/2022 23:46

I remember one back in 2008, 5.4 on the richter scale. I was a teen and woke my mum up to say they'd been an earthquake, she told me to stop talking rubbish it was the cats running around!

CandyLeBonBon · 21/02/2022 23:46

A friend of mine in the midlands has just posted on FB about it!

MrsHippopotamus · 21/02/2022 23:48

Bloody hell, is that what that was?! I thought someone had fallen out of bed and went round all the bedrooms to check 😆 didn’t even consider an earthquake 😳

Urbanisation · 21/02/2022 23:58

Earthquakes do happen a lot in the UK but they're almost always tiny and very far underground. We have fault lines here but they're old and not so active. When you look at the magnitude scale it only runs to ten so you think that maybe a four (which is top top end of what we get in the UK) is perhaps medium strong but it's misleading. Magnitude 10 is like immediate destruction and devastation level, no chance of survival, magnitude 1 is like a little branch trembling. Each fraction of 0.2 on the scale represents a doubling of energy, so say you have a three magnitude, a four magnitude will be 31 times stronger, it's just a massive measure, like looking down a grand piano where the string stretches on forever but it's just one note.

Anyway OP exciting. Hopefully that's it for tonight.

Heronatemygoldfish · 21/02/2022 23:59

I too was woken up by the Feb 2008 one (Market Rasen) while visiting my parents in Derbyshire. That was a 5.2 and it sounded like someone was falling downstairs! Yes to unnerving - I spent the next hour wondering if I'd dreamed it and staring out the window in case anyone was in the street. I was :-o to find it was the largest quake in the UK for 25 years... I think the neighbours were heavier sleepers than Eggsley's Grin

Kite22 · 22/02/2022 00:02

All over local social media, from all sorts of people living within a mile or so in all directions from me, but I didn't feel a thing.
Is it like a Princess and a Pea situation ? Hmm Grin

alexis4theppl · 22/02/2022 00:04

I'm in Essex. My partner said he felt something rumbling underfoot and to put my feet on the ground (I had feet up on sofa). Could he have felt that here?? Or strange coincidence???

Andariego · 22/02/2022 00:05

I felt it too!

AledsiPad · 22/02/2022 00:07

Ooooh, check you, OP! I am, still quite far from the midlands. I have felt one before though and it is most odd!

Uttoxerly · 22/02/2022 00:07

It was very brief @Kite22, if I’d been doing something more productive than lying in bed chilling I might have missed it too. Just a very strange sensation that couldn’t be anything else.

ghostmouse · 22/02/2022 00:07

There has been a few in north wales over the years. They really do feel strange. I felt one here about 10 years ago or so in the middle of the night. I can’t describe it.. but a few things did fall of my bedroom shelf

Monopolyiscrap · 22/02/2022 00:08

I remember feeling one a few years back in the Midlands. It was in the morning and we were in bed. I thought DP was shaking the bed!

Urbanisation · 22/02/2022 00:10

There was an earthquake in Dudley around 20 years ago i think. Early 2000s anyway.

Maybe you will get a visit from the PM to show his support in your time of crisis.

#stanwithbrum

HobnobsChoice · 22/02/2022 00:13

@Monopolyiscrap I also blamed my then DP for shaking the bed when there was one in about 2002. It was only the noise and that it carried on made me realise it wasn't

Just looked it up and that one was in Dudley too. I assume there is a fault line around there.

Swipe left for the next trending thread