Have you ever experienced an earthquake or earth tremor?

[TheTecknician]

I appreciate that this may be a sensitive subject for some, given the often dangerous and destructive nature of seismic activity. Thankfully, my one and only exposure was on the mild side. I don't remember much about it except that it occurred one night in the last 25 years or so and it woke me up as my home shivered and trembled for a few seconds. I think the epicentre might have been in Lincolnshire. That's all!

Yes in Surrey around 2018 when they were supposedly fracking on Leith Hill. I heard a massive boom in the distance which I immediately thought was a plane gone down as we're under the Gatwick flight path. Then within a millisecond the house started shaking underfoot, the doors rattled in their frames, lights swung on the ceiling and you could hear all the crockery rattling in the kitchen cupboards. The whole experience lasted 3-4 seconds maximum before all was still again. I immediately posted on Facebook "pretty sure we just experienced a f earthquake!" and within minutes people started sending me the breaking news stories that it had indeed been one!

1984 in North Wales. I was just getting out of bed to get ready for work. The bedroom floor shook and I thought it was earthworks on a nearby road that was being built. The floor continued to shake. I got back onto the bed until it stopped. It was only later in the day that I found out it was an earth tremor centred on North Wales.
I felt a much smaller one in late 80's or early 90s. I was on a course in Preston area and I felt the floor vibrate. It wasn't as severe as my previous experience, but I did remember thinking it might have been an earth tremor, which was later confirmed.

Yes in Lincolnshire can’t remember the exact year would have been around 2008-2010 i think. We thought it was our boiler making the noise at first as it was on the blink, but it turned out there had been one and the epicentre was not too far from where we lived at the time.

I remember the 2008 one. It woke me up and I remember scrambling to the bottom of my bed and holding onto the knobs for dear life. It only lasted a couple of mins and I went straight back to sleep. Assumed it was a dream when I woke up until others mentioned it too.

there was one a couple of years earlier too. I was yr10/11 and doing GCSE geography we were stood on the pavement outside school sketching the houses for a redevelopment project for our coursework and I fell off curb.
my friend had German on the 1st floor and she said the books fell off the shelf. Very minimal but at the time oh so dramatic

Im fortunate enough to have never experienced an earthquake but the closest I could imagine it would be like is when a sea mine went off when I lived facing the sea it was in, very peculiar sensation that lasted a matter of seconds.

It seems like a few of us are reading from the same page regarding 2008. I don't recall anything since then in my area (West Yorkshire). It's remarkable how far these seismic disturbances reach and the ability of the British Geological Survey and similar bodies to detect and measure them.

Fairly small in a Pacific Rim country- felt like a very heavy lorry going past very close.
My grandparents used to live in an earthquake zone and they were at the cinema when one happened. Grandma thought Grandpa was snoring and couldn't understand why everyone was leaving.

I remember that one 1984 was in the kitchen, some lovely china fell off the shelf and broke.

I experienced one near me that was 3.0. I was working from home and I heard a banging and crashing that sounded like it was both below and above me. My stomach also flipped like I had gone down fast on a rollercoaster it was a strange feeling. I just assumed something had fallen down from a cabinet upstairs or that next doors washing machine was jumping about. It was only when I started getting notifications on social media that I realised what it was!

In Bristol around early 2000s I was a teen and my bed started shaking. I had recently watched the exorcist and thought there was some paranormal activity happening! Luckily it was just a few tremors then stopped!

"next one I was on the 15th floor of a glass building where a metal filing cabinet and a stationary cupboard started waltzing around the office with as much grace as 3 rhinos on an ice rink"

Sorry but that made me laugh.

Ive never experienced one but thought i mightve when I went to zante but wasnt to be.

Once in the UK in about 1967-8. I was in bed and felt it jump in the air. It was in fact falling to the dropped floor due to the Pendleton Fault slipping.

Three times in Melbourne. Each time I've heard the rumble before the house started shaking. Earth tremors and quakes are quite common here.

I think that might have been the one I felt. If I remember correctly the epicentre was Market Rasen in Lincolnshire.

This is the one I felt.

I remember this one. We back on to a railway line, and I was woken up by one of the pictures rattling against the bedroom wall. I thought that it must be a very long train going past, but when the rattling continued I realised that it was an earthquake.

We experienced the aftershocks all night long after an earthquake in Bishop in California in 1986. We were terrified and kept our clothes on and our cases packed by the door ready to run in case we needed to make a hasty exit. The sound was pretty scary - it sounded like someone was rolling cannon balls across the ceiling, and the buiding shook avey 20 minutes. The TV nearly landed on the floor and the glass shower screen was rattling.

As soon as it was light we left.

Me too
I was woken up by the bed shaking and thought I had dreamt it until I heard about the earthquake on the radio. I was pg and DH was away, he didn't believe me until I sent him a link to the news

Yes. I grew up in California. Experienced multiple earthquakes but the most terrifying was the Northridge Earthquake in 1994. 6.7 on the Richter scale. It sounded like a train or Lorry coming up from the ground. It was loud and extremely violent and we had massive damage to our house. Absolutely awful- For years afterwards even hearing the low rumble of a Lorry would give me panic attacks.

The one in London in 2008

I was in the kitchen and everything in the rack, the dish rack and some cutlery, was absolutely rattling

It was mostly just really weird. But fortunately, they were a good old days where you could phone somebody and say "was that an earthquake?" And we were all very confident it was.

Similar in western France a few years ago, a 4.something quake - felt and sounded like a lorry load of bricks dumped just behind us. Very odd sensation and quite unsettling, as there were a couple more rumbles during the night. We were camping and decided to move on elsewhere pronto!

Yes, in Turkey in 2018. I was on the phone to work and was pissed off at being disturbed whilst on holiday.

All the bamboo umbrellas round the pool suddenly tilted sideways and the ground shook, rippled and roared.

Having to say ‘so sorry - got to go, I’m in an earthquake’ was quite the way to end the call!

I have just found reference to the earthquake where we expereinced the aftershocks.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-07-22-mn-30582-story.html

Strangely quite a few.
one in the uk where I live. It woke me up in the night but I had forgotten by morning until I saw it on the front of a paper the next morning and realised what had happened . Then one in LA whilst waiting to get on a flight, and on two separate trips to Greece both during the night.

Yes, I live in New Zeland. And experienced a major earthquake which woke us up.. 7.1 . I never forget standing under door frame and watching walls and floors moving .. it was like a ripple- but a very large one.
6 months later and technically an aftershock which flattened our. Earnest city and killed many .. including my beloved sister.
Id don’t cope well with them anymore

Yes,several times.2008 in this country.Several times on the Greek Islands,the worst one on Skiathos in the night,there was a fair bit of structural damage caused that time,I remember crockery falling out of the cupboards and smashing.

2002. The Gornal earthquake woke me up it was 4.8. I knew what it was immediately it was weird. Then thought I had dreamt it until one of my sons came to our bedroom and asked what had happened. The other 3 kids and their dad all slept through it.