Am I alone in having slept through last night’s earthquake, along with my two sons, while my husband who stayed over in Colchester was woken with an almighty jolt and a shaking bed, and my sister in Wisbech felt the tremors too, her wardrobe door flung open and everything around her shook and shuddered?
I was blissfully unaware of this chaos on my doorstep, said to be the biggest earthquake in 25 years. Did you sleep through it too, or were shaken to your very core and scared witless?
I have written a gripping account of this morning’s dramatic events over on my blog recounting my personal experience of this incredible act of nature.
I slept through it this time – but I was ‘in the earthquake zone’ last year -it was at about 8.20 in the morning and I was shopping. It was genuinely very scary… all the power went off which tripped all the alarms in the shops at the same time.
I wasn’t shaken to the core, but I did feel it here in oxfordshire…I know of other people that felt it and they live in Abingdon.
your poor sister. Here in Cornwall we didn’t hear anything, but it is a long way from you!
Scared the life out of me – I was just getting to sleep and then everything started wobbling!
No harm done though.
No I felt it – I thought it was the wind.
Not mine, obviously.
I was awoken by the tremor and in my semi state of sleep, i thought that the house was under attack or was collapsing. I leapt out of the bed and in the darkness managed to pull the curtains open while yanking the curtain pole off its support!! Once i turned the light on, I realised every thing was OK and put it down to a bad dream. This morning in work, a colleague was being teased for describing a simiar story to a bunch of disbeleivers and later in the day I heard a young lady describing how she had felt the bed going up and down in the night and thought somebody was in there with her!
We are minutes from Lincolnshire so a bit too close for my liking.
Walls shook quite a bit as did all teh stuff on teh bathroom shelves. In my sleeping state I put it down to strong winds…..
..Im hoping all the cracks I filled in the house we completed on, on Friday have now not reappeared!
Yes, I felt it and recorded it – more details on my blog
http://www.geologyrocks.co.uk/blog/hypocentre/market_rasen_earthquake
Hypnocentre, what a great opportunity for you, lucky for you to be in the right place at the right time.
Ellee,
It’s been a long day – awake most of the night and then in work at six-thirty to process the data, radio and newspaper interviews plus the ‘day job’. I’ve put a view more details on my ‘proper’ blog http://hypocentre.wordpress.com/2008/02/27/market-rasen-earthquake/
Apologies for linking to the ‘parallel’ one earlier – getting quite tired now.
Hypnocentre, no need to apologise, it must have been a thrilling night for you.
I didn’t feel this one even though I was awake at the time. The one last year I did however and wrote a poem about it.
http://beamansworld.blogspot.com/2007/04/kent-earthquake.html
I don’t know if it got this far and if it did I certainly didn’t notice it. But then I slept through the ‘great storm’ of 87 when a tree fell across the road in front of our house.
I was unaware of it, but your hubby did get a jolt!
I’ll say this very carefully, Ellee; I slept through it with you. Mrs Womble On Tour felt it, but, after 12 years of marriage, knows better than to wake me up to ask me whether I’m really still asleep despite the wind / rain / earthquake that’s preventing her from sleeping.
Liz, I was fortunate to have just missed the storms of 1987 as I flew to San Francisco just hours before.
Womble, my sons came home from school and told me how their friends felt it too. I’m quite a sound sleeper and I’m not sure if I was in a safe, protected zone.
Glad you are OK, Ellee. Thought of you as soon as I heard of it. Last time we had a tremor here, I went back to sleep as I thought it was the couple upstairs enjoying themselves!
Yes, it did
and wow what a night it was