Just wondering if anyone else from the UK felt that earthquake around 1am, its the biggest one I've ever felt and I wanted to know if you guys think it might cause any serious damage.

First I've heard of it. Do you know if anyone was hurt?

woah, wait...what? I didn't hear, see or feel a thing. Whereabouts in the UK was most affected?

I'm up near Manchester and I knew what it was immediately. Was pretty worried as it was the strongest I've ever felt in this country. Chair n tables wobbling but not strong enough for anything to actually fall over. Itty bit of a shock though.

i didnt notice anything, but im down by dover.

WoW guildmates from london all freaked out though.

I felt it dude, Im in Leeds. Freaked me the fuck out.

Yeh i feel like i read something about that. According to ze intrawebs there was "mild earthquake behavior" in london at around 1AM.

Fun fun.

Dark Wingstalker:
i didnt notice anything, but im down by dover.

WoW guildmates from london all freaked out though.

Thats humorous.

Yeah i felt it, had no idea what on earth was going on and thought i was going mad, and then a friend in Bath said she felt it a few seconds later lol.

Didn't feel anything up here in the frozen wastes of Scotland. Biggest quake in the UK for 20 years apparently.

ps. I'm taking bets on how long before someone tries to blame global warming.

Yea pretty bad here, I'm not too far from Epicentre.

Wondered what was going on, loads of crap fell out my wardrobe.

Nothing down here in Brighton. Think Manc got the last one England had too. Must be the closest to fault lines etc.

Talisker:
Didn't feel anything up here in the frozen wastes of Scotland. Biggest quake in the UK for 20 years apparently.

ps. I'm taking bets on how long before someone tries to blame global warming.

Lol I'd say about the evening news for our first sanity bating from the fear mongers.
Like your name btw (I'm a single malt fan, Glenlivet for me).

Felt it here in Portsmouth, I didn't think it was a quake though, I thought my dinner was acting up.

Brentwood, Essex. Hardly felt anything but fairly subtle chair wobbling. Good to know what it was though.

Well I must have got the brunt of it then, it felt like my floor was moving. Pretty freaky shit.

I'm uni in Warwick, and I didn't feel anything. But I'm on exchange to Hong Kong at the moment, does this still count?

Freaked me out here in the Midlands. I've never felt an earthquake before; I was playing Sins Of A Solar Empire when the whole room started shaking. Apparently the epicentre was in Lincolnshire, luckily there isn't much there :-)

Doncaster here. Was brushing my teeth when it happened. Didn't feel a thing, but it sounded like my dad fell out of his chair. Then the noise continued, and it scared my sister witless.

"Mam! Mam, get in here! Get in here, mam!"

She's a wuss sometimes.

I felt it all the way down here in the East Anglia, just a mild wobbling and the faint sounds of plaster settling itself.

Talisker:
ps. I'm taking bets on how long before someone tries to blame global warming.

Already happened. I was reading through the comments on the BBC 'Have your say' pages, and there it was. You can only hope it was sarcastic.

Corsair256:
I felt it all the way down here in the East Anglia, just a mild wobbling and the faint sounds of plaster settling itself.

Talisker:
ps. I'm taking bets on how long before someone tries to blame global warming.

Already happened. I was reading through the comments on the BBC 'Have your say' pages, and there it was. You can only hope it was sarcastic.

Probably some Times reader. I reckon somewhere got nuked, and they're saying it s a quake to cover it up.
ITS ALL A CONSPIRACY!!
Or not. But, we are far from any plate "edges" (is that the right word?) And if I remember my geography, the only other place you get quakes is near volcanoes. Hmm, maybe Edinburgh castle is going to get a magma-ey redecoration..

I'm in Brighton and felt nothing....

Leeds, Yorkshire.

Didn't feel anything.

But all the girls I know did.

Its a sign!

I slept through it, but some friends woke because of it. It was only minor tremors here, I'm about 100 miles off where it happened so I suppose that's why.

Midlands, Staffordshire. Didn't feel a thing, but got a text a moment after it should've happened from me brother saying: "We just had an earthquake!!"

The Reverend:

Corsair256:
I felt it all the way down here in the East Anglia, just a mild wobbling and the faint sounds of plaster settling itself.

Talisker:
ps. I'm taking bets on how long before someone tries to blame global warming.

Already happened. I was reading through the comments on the BBC 'Have your say' pages, and there it was. You can only hope it was sarcastic.

Probably some Times reader. I reckon somewhere got nuked, and they're saying it s a quake to cover it up.
ITS ALL A CONSPIRACY!!
Or not. But, we are far from any plate "edges" (is that the right word?) And if I remember my geography, the only other place you get quakes is near volcanoes. Hmm, maybe Edinburgh castle is going to get a magma-ey redecoration..

It's possible to get earthquakes elsewhere. England had another Biggest Earthquake Evar a few years back. Mind you, Wikipedia doesn't seem to know how. It's still immensely satisfying to know that, unless you're really really stupid, you can't actually blame Global Warming for this.

Apparantly only one person was injured, which isn't too bad all things considered.

ahh no earthquake in scotland and about someone saying we arent near any plates. isnt like britain and europes plates close enough? and edinburgh castle's volcano is extinct i believe so probs wont erupt.

also this made me realise every disaster in the world DOESNT seem to affect scotland. ice caps melting doesnt go high enough, earthquakes, that tornado/hurricane a little while ago. hah we are bulletproof

Kukakkau:
ahh no earthquake in scotland and about someone saying we arent near any plates. isnt like britain and europes plates close enough? and edinburgh castle's volcano is extinct i believe so probs wont erupt.

also this made me realise every disaster in the world DOESNT seem to affect scotland. ice caps melting doesnt go high enough, earthquakes, that tornado/hurricane a little while ago. hah we are bulletproof

The US has a nuke aimed directly at Scotland, BTW.

Edit: Joke.

Apone:

Talisker:
Didn't feel anything up here in the frozen wastes of Scotland. Biggest quake in the UK for 20 years apparently.

ps. I'm taking bets on how long before someone tries to blame global warming.

Lol I'd say about the evening news for our first sanity bating from the fear mongers.
Like your name btw (I'm a single malt fan, Glenlivet for me).

Ah, a connosuir. Just a pity the stuff costs so much.

Yes, luckily I got a bottle for christmas so I'm set for a while.

I'm in York, my first thing was 'wait, lets make sure it isnt aliens' but it scared shit out of me!...thought my xbox might fall over

thebobmaster:

Kukakkau:
ahh no earthquake in scotland and about someone saying we arent near any plates. isnt like britain and europes plates close enough? and edinburgh castle's volcano is extinct i believe so probs wont erupt.

also this made me realise every disaster in the world DOESNT seem to affect scotland. ice caps melting doesnt go high enough, earthquakes, that tornado/hurricane a little while ago. hah we are bulletproof

The US has a nuke aimed directly at Scotland, BTW.

Edit: Joke.

TBH that actually makes some sense, its where most of the UK nuke silo's are. Take a trip to Arbroath and look for the glow in the dark cows and Royal Marines, you'll know you're close then.
Oh, and Britain and Europe are on the same plate. (The Eurasian plate I think..) And Disasters ignore Scotland because its already a disaster zone. It would be like burning down the ashes of a burnt down house again, just to annoy the rodents living in there.

I was asleep, couldnt care less, just went straight back to sleep. I don't know why people are making such a big fuss about this.

that better not be calling us rodents pal... lol

thank god that eathquake came i got a day of school yay!!!