On the BBC radio today people were calling in with their stories about the earthquake. Some people's chimney stacks fell down, and one person phoned in to say that their pet parrot fell of its perch during the event.

I can only image what people in Japan or LA must think of us if they heard those reactions lol

i didnt feel a thing i only just heard about this hole thing the hole day not a single person said anything to me

tv nearly fell off the shelf. It was right on the edge anyway so i was probably askin for it =p
In liverpool BTW

Aye, felt it in Berkshire - though I was asleep, so it just added an interesting twist to what was already a true acid trip of a dream.
As for tectonic plates; no, we're not near any plate boundaries - we are indeed on the Eurasian plate - but the UK is criss-crossed with minor fault lines.

stooman:
I can only image what people in Japan or LA must think of us if they heard those reactions lol

Agreed!

Stooman:
I can only image what people in Japan or LA must think of us if they heard those reactions lol

The thing is, in LA it takes about 2 weeks to rebuild a six lane motorway, here it would take about 2 years.

The thing is, in LA it takes about 2 weeks to rebuild a six lane motorway, here it would take about 2 years.

You're kidding, right? I work for my local council, in the Highways department. Two years? Try five. ;)

The guy who had his hip pelvis broken because of the chimny was from Wombwell in Barnsley, Now we have to live with the local chronical telling us of the epic tail for the next 6 months on the front page.

Blayze:
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.

Earthquakes can be a scary thing if you ain't used to them. We had one in Georgia a few years back; I thought it was another tornado.

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..

You should of seen the Pravda and Al Jazeera messageboards when those superquakes hit Waziristan.

Didnt really seem to hit the birmingham area, didnt know about it until I saw the news.

The only one ive actually not slept through was the one a few years back where the epicenter was around about the dudley area.

Blayze:

The thing is, in LA it takes about 2 weeks to rebuild a six lane motorway, here it would take about 2 years.

You're kidding, right? I work for my local council, in the Highways department. Two years? Try five. ;)

If you follow the A82 out of Glasgow for a bit, by Loch Lomond you will come upon a set of traffic lights that were meant to be temporary..... they have been there for 30 years.

That has to be a record.

Wasn't the London Orbital supposed to be temporary? As i the M25.