How was it for you?

[A Lark Ascending]

Woken at 1.00 a.m. to find the bed vibrating like billy-o (no rude comments, please!). 15 seconds or so.

Assumed someone was trying to get in by hammering the downstairs door. Turned out to be the biggest UK earthquake for 25 years.

Please send aid immediately - unwanted Mosaics etc.

I don't know. Floods last year, earthquakes this. Fully expecting the Vikings to sack Lindisfarne (or, more likely, the Metro Centre) in the near future.

[Stefan Wood]

I assume you want the big boxes, cause the Selects make for terrible flotation devices.

[7/4]

I slept through the whole thing.

[BillF]

A few years ago, a Mancunian who'd been living in L.A. invited me to borrow whatever I wanted from his jazz CD collection. I took a dozen or so, but noticed that many of the cases were deeply scarred and gouged and commented on this. "Oh," he said, "that was the earthquake. It threw everything on the floor." Bizarre, I thought, most unBritish! But now it's happening here - on a lesser scale, of course, but with unprecedented frequency. (Manchester had two weeks of minor seismic events in 2002.)

[Aggie87]

I slept through the whole thing.

You were asleep at 7 pm EST last night?

[7/4]

I slept through the whole thing.

You were asleep at 7 pm EST last night?

Uh...yeah. I told everyone at the bar I was resting my eyes by balancing my head on my mug.

Happens all the time.

[sidewinder]

See the 'other' thread - it hit whilst I was reading an article by Stuart Nicholson in an attempt to get to sleep. Works better than counting sheep.

The magazine ('Jazzwise') started moving of its own accord !

I'm pretty far South - around 200 miles from the epicentre. Haven't come across any other reports of the quake being detected this far South and West, other than 1 person at work who was woken up.

Lasted no more than a couple of seconds down here.

Edited February 27, 2008 by sidewinder

[tonym]

I too slept through the whole thing ( no, I wasn't with 7/4.....) which is a shame really because I normally don't turn in til around 12:30 1 am but last night, I managed an early night and must have been in deep, deep sleep.

I remember the meteor hitting the North Sea though back in 92/93!

[Head Man]

It woke me up & that takes some doing. My bed hasn't moved that much for 20 years......oh, those were the days!

[sidewinder]

[BillF]

I think we had an aftershock here at 2 a.m. (Yet to be confirmed by the media.)

[Rosco]

I was awake at the time. Didn't feel a thing.

Quite disappointed, actually.

[JohnS]

Was supposed to noticeable down here in the south. I didn't feel a thing either - I was in Spain.