anyone in south kent???? large explosion north of ashford causing earth tremors??

[tiredemma]

on bbc now- some kind of explosions this morning?

wonder what it is?

was just about to start a thread asking about this as I saw the headlines on the BBC website........I'm too far away for it have affected us but just being nosey really........

come to the other thread - more info there I think

yes - just spotted it thanks (only had a few hours sleep.........see bl**dy pg hormones thread for daft reason why LOL)

I am in Deal & I felt it! We have workmen drilling outside & I thought they were going a bit OTT!!

Earthquake measuring a 5 on richter scale according to european monitoring station.

We're in Kent. DH felt it in Faversham. I was in Sittingbourne and didn't. This is the first I have heard about explosions causing it.. will look it up.

So what happened?

On Saturday, an earthquake measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale hit Folkestone, causing untold disruption and distress.

• Many were woken well before their giro arrived
• Several priceless collections of mementos from the Balearics and Spanish Costas were damaged
• Three areas of historic and scientifically significant litter were disturbed
• Thousands are confused and bewildered, trying to come to terms with the fact that something interesting has happened in Folkestone.

One resident, Donna-Marie Dutton, a 17 year old mother-of-three said "It was such a shock, little Chantal-Leanne came running into my bedroom crying. My youngest two, Tyler-Morgan and Megan-Storm slept through it. I was still shaking when I was watching Trisha the next morning."

Apparently though, looting did carry on as normal.

The British Red Cross has so far managed to ship 4000 crates of Sunny Delight to the area to help the stricken masses.

Rescue workers are still searching through the rubble and have found large quantities of personal belongings including benefit books and jewellery from Elizabeth Duke at Argos.

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LOL. You are very good at those. You should see if MN would let you do a daily news report.

I have to confess I didn't mak that one up. It was adapted from something a friend sent me 5 years ago about the Dudley earthquake!

We live about 5 miles away from the Buncefield Oil Terminal. When that blew up the shock measured 2.5 on the Richter scale and ds1's bed shook.

We heard the thump from that in Sheffield. Only very distantly and dimly - I thought it was a teddy falling out of DD's bed.

dh works in the building right next to it - if it had been on a weekday the estimate is that 1500 people could have died. The shockwave before the blast sucked air inwards so hard that it sucked the mortar out from between the bricks of the building