Yes, we had an earthquake last night at 1.00 am (UK time) It measured 5.2 on the Reichter scale, the biggest for twentyfive years and scared me seriously.
Be interesting to know how far apart Beoworlders felt it.
I'm in Lancashire,north-west England and felt everything move for about 4 seconds. How about you?

Andy T.

Yes I felt it too as I was in the kitchen making myself a sandwich at the time!

Slept like a baby throughout the whole thing!

 

Simon

It was only me turning my Lab 5's up, sorry!

Yep,  woke us up (in Rochdale), although the kids slept through it.

Apparently the epicentre was in Lincolnshire somewhere. Only one person reported to be injured. Chimney fell on someone in Barnsley, Yorkshire.

Jandyt:

Apparently the epicentre was in Lincolnshire somewhere. Only one person reported to be injured. Chimney fell on someone in Barnsley, Yorkshire.

He was probably nicking the lead flashing at the time

Apparently it reached this far North but we  didn't feel it.

Never felt a thing!

I felt it in Cambridge - I was doing some laundry at the time and funnily enough, as the washing machine started to spin so the house started to shake. I was on the phone to a friend at the time and she said that she had gelt it to so clearly it was not the washing machine.

IT was quite a surreal feeling. I knew it was a quake but also knew that it was unlikely to cause any real damage. However, it really did freak a few of my friends out.

We felt it around 1 am this morning.

I thought at the time "was that an earthquake?" then thought nah - we don't get them in Yorkshire The epicentre was somewhere in Lincolnshire about 100 miles from us.

 

Chris.

  I was driving back from Croydon at 2am and had the radio on in the car,said eathquakes some in London but felt nothing and  friend did not say anything either!

Hope everyone that felt them are ok!

It woke me at 1am in Ely, Cambridgeshire

I thought i'd dreamt it and then heard about it on radio.

Dad (Joeyboygolf) 2 miles down the road, slept through it.

 

 

 

 

Woke me up.. other half said I think that was an earthquake.. and I went nice and went back to sleep!!!

Was wierd though..  

Couldn't fell it in Tokyo. Monthly event for me, sometimes twice a day.

 I am really enjoying reading about people talking about what they were doing when it happen. In Japan, if you ask did you feel the earthquake, people normal reply with either what earthquake or which one.

 I remember my first earthquake was a biggy on the 50th floor in Tokyo. Lets put it this way, I need some new pants after that. 

Well I slept through it too, did the same with the last one we had about 5 years ago.

 

Craig

I know Lee thinks it were his Beolab 5, but did your birthday party had anything to do with it, Andy?

I was asleep and stayed that way. Not much stops my sleep, except Toby the cat !!

Woke me up. Brilliant, loved it. Nothing this exciting usually happens in the UK.

Was it only to scare people, or were there any damages. I heard it in the news, but no details.

 

We had an earthquake in Luxembourg in 1992. One glass fell from a shelf and broke. But it did not wake me up...

Tom:

Was it only to scare people, or were there any damages. I heard it in the news, but no details.

 

We had an earthquake in Luxembourg in 1992. One glass fell from a shelf and broke. But it did not wake me up...

1992 
Was it on April 13 ?

That was the earthquake near Roermond (in the South of The Netherlands) , MW 5,4
I live 6 kilometers from Roermond and it was the strongest in Europe since 1756.
Quite a lot of damage, fortunately we live in a house where the walls are almost 1 meter thick. 

The only thing that woke me up was the screaming of the other people in the house !

 

Just over the hill from Andy, slept right through it, mind you my BL3500 has tilted a degree or two.

A bloke on the radio said he was was making love to his missus at the time, but it woke her up!

Tom:

Was it only to scare people, or were there any damages. I heard it in the news, but no details.

Some fairly minor property damage and a young 19 year old lad in Barnsley had the chimney stack fall onto him in bed & broke his pelvis.

 

 

Medogsfat:

Tom:

Was it only to scare people, or were there any damages. I heard it in the news, but no details.

Some fairly minor property damage and a young 19 year old lad in Barnsley had the chimney stack fall onto him in bed & broke his pelvis.

 

 

 

What was he doing sleeping on the roof??!! 

 

Are you allowed to say pelvis, bed and stack in one post?  (or Barnsley!!)
Oh, pelvis, sorry!