Gah! Tremors!
 

Did anyone else feel that - the whole house just shook alarmingly!

With my power to levitate in mid-air, I have no need for a chair. And since I'm in mid-air, I'm with no contact to the ground, therefore, I did not feel anything.

Being in America probably helps matters, as well.

It's just a little disconcerting - we don't live on any sort of fault line, so tremors are very infrequent, and never very strong...

...I don't think I could deal with living somewhere like Japan or LA, where there's always the possiblity of the next big one.

I hate anything that shakes me up while I'm on my own 2 feet. Turbulance (sp?) in the plane I took while taking a vacation to Las Vegas didn't help me at all when I landed. For some odd reason, while walking around I just started feeling dizzy, like I was back at the plane again.

And I'm never going back to San Diego when I know there might be a slight chance of a small tremor. As much as I love So Cal...

Instead, you live in Louisville, close enough to the New Madrid fault that if there were a good-sized quake (6.0+) you'd feel it.:p

Actually the last earthquake Louisville has had, or even a small tremor, has been decades, about 2-3 at the least.

Wow... it's nice for these things to shake somewhere not expecting it and not here for once. :p

Not seeing anything show up on the map...

http://www.iris.washington.edu/HTM/tfhour.html

Sure someone didn't hit the back of your deskchair? :p

A report at last :)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2275158.stm

http://seismo.ethz.ch/redpuma/redpuma_ami_list.html

a 4.5, and yes, i felt it.

Wow. A 4.5 and at a pretty shallow depth. That really must have knocked yer socks off :p (Me imagines a giant crowd of english people caught completely unawares running around)

Although it doesn't even start to get exciting until you pass 5.5... believe me. :confused:
Watadoo or bizznatch can back be up if they deign to post in G.Discussions today...

it must of been those pesky buzz bombs again... i went out in the streets in my alan whickers to take a gander. to be awaken at that hour, i was narked.

Thats why they started the USGS

nope didnt feel it...

but i watched all 3 of the movies on USA yesterday...
tremors movies that is:D
right now im watchin armageddon though.

Yeah, wow, I felt it (in Leeds)
My chair & monitor were wobbling for like 10 seconds or so.
Thought I was trippin' or something :D

dammit! a few hundred miles north and i would've had some excitement in my miserable life!

Most people would have been asleep, as it was 1am on a Sunday night - so I s'pect noone felt it.

It's very disconcerting though - at first I thought it was a plane crash or something (as I live under flight paths for two large airports) - but then a friend in the north felt it as well, so it couldn't have been!

I somehow doubt it's been that long since the New Madrid sent some shivers your way. It's right on the West border of Kentucky, and it goes off about 200 times a year though about 199 of those are not felt by humans :D). Regardless, if the New Madrid really goes off again, you'll know it. :)

10 percent chance of a 7.5 in the next year; 50 percent (or more, up to 90, depending on who you ask) chance of a 6.0 in the next 50 years.

I felt it in worcester. It woke me up, I had no idea what was happening though.

I heard it was a 4.8, not that it really matters.

they are saying it was a 4.8 at its epicenter.

Didn't feel a thing here in Manchester. :weird:

Ok Who farted!!!

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0...128886,00.html

I've never felt that before and I must say ..that was abit scary

I'm in the Northwest, just outside Manchester and not really far from Birmingham, but it certainly moved the floor

I hope that the people from uK here are fine and not hurt in anyway

hehe that was weird, my mum was just talking to me about it and then i saw this thread, no i didnt feel it cause my monitor broked and i decided to go to bed.:cry: there was one time when i was in a daycare type place (this was a long time ago) and there was an earthquake which knocked me into this gap in the foam block thingies and i was stuck there upside down.

I felt it here in birmingham unsurprisingly. Never been in one before so I thought the poor construction of my house was finally quitting

possiblity of the next big one? washington is WELL over due for another centerial 9.0. Im gonna ride the wave baby and fly through the air into a wall. its gonna suck.

The earth didn't move forme last night unfortunatly :( Being way up here in Newcastle and all.

why is england getting all worked up it was only 4.3-4.9 which aint even a earthquake its a itsy-bitsy earth TREMMOR. i was in bed woke up and was half asleep before it finished so there:p

Well i'm on the other side of the UK and didn't feel a thing.

but that sort of thing doesn't happen every day.

actully it almost does just they're so weak that nobody notices, like they're about 0.004 i think

you shouldnt be talking florida is sinking too :p

There was one yesterday, and last week on the kentucky/arkansas border. You shoulda been able to feel it.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqs...2.-95.-85.html

I felt it in Central London.

I slept through the whole thing.

I never felt it, i live in FL

Apparently, nope...

Actually, San Diego is much less seismically active than other parts of the state like Los Angeles and San Francisco. We have one big fault here, and it's classified as a Type B fault. The San Andreas and a few other biggies are classified as Type A faults.

I usually don't wake up at less than a 4.5. I think above 5 is pretty big. Xerxes is probably closer to more quakes than I am, so he is probably bored of smaller quakes.

And there is one major advantage to living in San Diego as opposed to Louisville - my house isn't likely to be picked up be a twister and dropped in Oz. My guess would be that on average, more people die in the U.S. per year from tornados than from earthquakes. Probably more people die from the cold in Minnesota than from earthquakes as well.

I don't even remember the last time a tornado even touched-down in the PRP or St. Matthews area, for as many times as a watch has been issued...

Hah, you were watching that, too? :D
Good stuff

Yes, 4.x earthquakes are like... borrrring. We have at least one or two a year, and if a 5.x hits, there are usually a couple 3.x/4.x quakes in the 24 hours after it.

I'm pretty close to the San Andreas fault- but another terrible place to be is where Nullsoft is. Most of San Francisco (And nullsoft!:winamp: ) is built on ... old San Francisco- the city rubble left after the giant quake early in the century. And then below that is basically weak compressed sand.

A large part of the "percieved" strongness of a quake is what your structure is built on- solid rock does well, saturated sand and particle materials react terrible- think of shaking dirt in a bowl compared to a one large piece of rock. I dont know what All of england is built on, but I would imagine that a lot of their older brick architecture combined with the earthquake rarity is what got people so worked up.