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Earthquake!!!

petunia

23:02 / 26.02.08

Haha. there was just a big earthquake here in Manchester. Started off like a truck rumbling past, then the whole room shook. Crazy shit!!!!

You heard it here first!

Pingle!Pop

23:08 / 26.02.08

I did, and I'm well over 100 miles away from Manchester. Earthquakes scare me.

petunia

23:24 / 26.02.08

And me!

But in a sort of exciting way...

Blake Head

23:26 / 26.02.08

BBC News article here.

With a somewhat snotty seeming expert calling it "quite insignificant". I'd have probably been hiding under the table mind.

Hydra vs Leviathan

23:28 / 26.02.08

Oh, that's what it was. I thought someone was either running around in a panic or having a fight in the room next to me. It sounded *exactly* like very heavy running footsteps. Given the people i'm currently living among, an earthquake is actually the less worrying explanation.

Papess

23:32 / 26.02.08

Blakehead, that is from 2007? Am I missing something? Are you just feeling the effects of this now!?

Pingle!Pop

23:35 / 26.02.08

Here we go! Doesn't really say much though, other than that people have been phoning the police from all over the country. I demand numbers!

(Edit: as soon as I posted that, the BBC updated with numbers. 4.7, whatever that means in real terms.)

Tsuga

23:37 / 26.02.08

It did say the USGS site reported a magnitude of 4.7. What more numbers do you want?
53!
687!
2!
Edit: oh, you edited.
You still want more numbers?

Pingle!Pop

23:47 / 26.02.08

23, obviously. Earthquake engineered by the government, and all that.

I've moved on to better things on the BBC site now, though: this story is more exciting. Proper Sea Monsters! I like the fact that we still have krakens more, though.

Pingle!Pop

23:48 / 26.02.08

Actually, one thousand would be a good number. Then my essay would be finished and I could go to bed.

TIMEQUAKE!

Nah: searching BBC site for earthquake and Manchester + having toothache and sore head = wrongheadedness.

Saint Keggers

00:09 / 27.02.08

I'd just like to congratulate whichever 'lithers it is that went and built their very own Tesla earthquake machine!

All Acting Regiment

09:38 / 27.02.08

Yep, had the earthquake. What was weird was, I was leaning against the wall and you know when you get a tic in your back that, pressed against a hard surface, makes you tremble? I had that at the time and I thought I was causing the earthquake.

Mistoffelees

10:50 / 27.02.08

I really like the online reactions so far. On another forum one poster at first blamed her partner in the next room ("I thought he was up to something."), another poster thought "the cat was scratching my door".

jentacular dreams

12:42 / 27.02.08

I've got a dodgy knee this week, and for a moment thought that it had started trembling. Then the rest of the house started shaking too.

Mind you, one of my housemates was taking a dump at the time, so he ultimately got the blame.

Wikipedia suggests I've been through a few of these in my life, though this is the first one I've noticed.

Ava Banana

13:05 / 27.02.08

I was petrified! I thought my whole building was going to collapse and leapt up from the sofa, clutching my laptop yelping "Did you feel that!!" Instead of comforting words I got a rather distracted "...yeahh" from Bananaman (I never should have bought him that PSP!) and a gentle snore from the dog.

Lama glama

14:06 / 27.02.08

I once had a lecture focused entirely on earthquakes and tremors in the UK and Ireland. They happen more than we notice, but their effects are really only felt in rural areas.

And as far which 'lither engineered the Tesla machine, well, where was Evil Scientist last night, hm?

Janean Patience

19:33 / 27.02.08

I completely missed the earthquake but was dismayed to discover when talking to my cockatiel and parakeet this morning that they both had half-a-wing. It's happened before - something alarms a bird, bird flaps around in the cage and damages their flight feathers on one wing, bird pulls said feathers out so they regrow properly - but never to both at once. I saw something about the earthquake on GMTV before switching over to MTV Base, but it wasn't until I got to work and everyone was talking about how their dogs and other pets had gone wild even before the ground started shaking that it dawned on me: Ah. That was why they panicked and flapped. And now neither bird will be able to fly for the next month.

grant

20:09 / 27.02.08

Disaster!

Mistoffelees

20:34 / 27.02.08

At least, they are all still hanging on the wall.

Saint Keggers

21:01 / 27.02.08

they looked like forgeries to me.

sTe

21:09 / 27.02.08

consider the etch a sketcher's.. Obviously they have offended our god/mother earth/random natural forces, in ways we cannot possibly imagine. Still that'll teach em

I missed this one, but reminds of the earthquakes we used have back in the good old days, proper earthquakes them (think it was about 2002), the only one I noticed while was answering a call of nature at work. I can just remember thinking, please don't let the building collapse, of all the ways to appear on the news, being dragged out of the rubble with my pants round my feet, covered in... It's not the way I would have wanted to go

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