I'm sure I just felt an earthquake!

[Bramblegins]

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?

Yep. Dudley/Wolverhampton here and my house just shook!

@BluebellsGreenbells

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

I think I felt that in London, around 11pm? The cutlery shook in the rack. I rang a friend to check it was an earthquake.

Ok so make that #istanwithdudley

@EmmaH2022 It happened at 10.59pm

Nottingham was quiet so didnt reach that far out.

[quote Boobahs]@EmmaH2022 It happened at 10.59pm [/quote]
Ooh I was close!

Last (and first!) one I felt I was in bed and something fell over in another room
I thought I was being burgled so clambered out the ground floor window in my pjs (vest and knickers)
My neighbour kindly told me it was an earthquake and then watched me climb back in the window very not elegantly
Not my finest moment

I remember the one that I think happened in 2008, around that time anyway, I was asleep and woke up feeling like someone was shaking me and could hear the mirror rattling on the wall. My first thought was that it was a ghost 🤦‍♀️

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@Urbanisation

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.

Fascinating post. Thanks!

There was an earthquake near Swansea in 2018. We felt.it on the other side of the Bristol Channel. (We're near Bath). I believe it was about 4 on the richter scale. DH thought some thing had fallen over in the house. I thought that a car had crashed out in the street.

We had a 4.2 earthquake in Kent in 2015. I obviously sleep like a log as I didn’t know anything about it but lots of people thought it was a bomb. DDs both woke up and said the whole house shook. Prior to that we’d had a 4.3 in 2007. About a 100 people had to be evacuated from their homes as they’d become unstable.

There was one in Swansea a few years ago. It sounded like a big lorry driving past, a tin of chopped tomatoes fell out of the cupboard and my partner fell off the sofa he was on.

I didn't feel a thing!! 10 mins from bham town here.

The only time I felt one was about 14 years ago - it was daytime and I live near a powerstarion...it took a moment to realise it was an earthquake and not the powerstation about to have a fit!

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😂 Yow orite Bramblegins bab?

@LittleEsme thanks! It's a magnitude scale so each point on it is multiplied by itself and by every other point previously. I used to live in a fairly earthquake prone place and we had one that was 6.2, thousands died, my own building was damaged even though I was about 130 miles away. Compared to this one yesterday, 3.2 which doesn't sound that different, you know like what's three points type of thing, but because it's a magnitude scale 3.2 means just a bit of shuffling around compared to everything collapsing and loads of people dying. I'm less than 100 miles from Brum and I didn't feel a thing, for eg, but I certainly felt that 6.2 bastard and so did everyone else - I had my radio on at the time and the dj was like "wow guys, it's the big one, we're all gonna die". Can't blame him tbf it was pretty scary.

@Uttoxerly

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.

I was only MNing, in the quiet, on my own, in the living room

Y'orite Bramblegins ?
Plenty of us around.

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Alrite cocka, we day expect that did we?

[quote Urbanisation]@LittleEsme thanks! It's a magnitude scale so each point on it is multiplied by itself and by every other point previously. I used to live in a fairly earthquake prone place and we had one that was 6.2, thousands died, my own building was damaged even though I was about 130 miles away. Compared to this one yesterday, 3.2 which doesn't sound that different, you know like what's three points type of thing, but because it's a magnitude scale 3.2 means just a bit of shuffling around compared to everything collapsing and loads of people dying. I'm less than 100 miles from Brum and I didn't feel a thing, for eg, but I certainly felt that 6.2 bastard and so did everyone else - I had my radio on at the time and the dj was like "wow guys, it's the big one, we're all gonna die". Can't blame him tbf it was pretty scary.[/quote]
Good grief. This is utterly fascinating in a way I've never considered before. Again, thanks for your explanation. Are you a teacher by any chance?!

I remember the 2018 one I watched my staircase shake. It was really unnerving