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We had an earthquake! (in Vancouver)

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highlander · 20/07/2004 19:24

How exciting

Woke up at 1am on Monday morning with the bed shaking and the standing lamp banging against the wall. I was all ready to evacuate.........then it stopped.

The epicentre was off Vancouver island, 100km away and was 6.2 on the Richter thing. There was another one of the same magnitude 4 days previously.

Apparently, there is a big fault line running down there and the city is on constant alert for 'the big one'.

Wierdly, we had a tremor on honeymoon in the BVI 2 years ago and last year we had a tremor on Levkas (Greece) - they'd had a proper quake 2 weeks before we arrived.

DH keeps saying, 'aye, the earth has moved every year since we got married'

It was funny the first time...........

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carla · 20/07/2004 19:28

.. Scarey, highlander!!!

zebra · 20/07/2004 19:29

Not scarey... quite fun, in fact!

prettycandles · 20/07/2004 20:35

Crumbs! My parents came back home from Vancouver on Monday!

Hulababy · 20/07/2004 20:42

Wow!

Anyone remember the quake a year or so back - epicentre was Birmingham? We are in Sheffield and it shook our windows and doors and woke us up. Except DD who was tiny at the time, who slept through it entirely. It was in the middle of the night and woke me with a start - thought someone was trying to break in!

NomDePlume · 20/07/2004 20:47

Hula, we liive in Worcester, about 20 miles from Brum and we thought that a truck had driven into the side of our house

sanssouci · 20/07/2004 20:51

WHAT! Earthquake in Vancouver... that's where I'm from. My father and sisters live there. I wonder why no-one told me about it.

LunarSea · 20/07/2004 22:13

I remember one a few (well about 15!) years ago which had it's centre in Shropshire somewhere. The chairs on castors were rolling around our first floor office in Warwickshire on their own. Weird thing was you could look out of the window and people outside were walking along as if nothing was happening - I guess they didn't notice as they were moving themselves.

princesspeahead · 20/07/2004 22:35

how exciting, my brother lives in vancouver, must give him a ring and see if he is all aquiver

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highlander · 20/07/2004 23:25

DH went to work all excited, but they are so used to tremors here that no-one was the slightest bit bothered

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polly28 · 20/07/2004 23:41

hey my brother lives there aswell ,must call him.

Chandra · 20/07/2004 23:52

The only time I had been in one I was at the office, as soon as I felt it I thought "Oh God, I'm really working too much", didn't realise it has been an earthquake until I saw it in the news...

suedonim · 21/07/2004 00:05

There were frequent quakes in Jakarta. The news reports would say that that the landmark building where dh worked had swayed violently for 20 seconds. He never felt any of them and his first knowledge was always me phoning to tell him!

Ds1 lives in LA. His PIL's had to have their house completely rebuilt after a quake. They had to rent elsewhere for about 9mths while the work was done. Their current concern is forest fires, though, which are raging through the canyons.

jampot · 21/07/2004 00:13

I remember working at the Post & Mail House (11th floor) in Brum about 12 years ago when we had an earthquake. The one we had a couple of years ago I slept through but woke feeling really groggy. We had one last year too I think which I slept through again.

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