You know, once we had an earthquake in Champaign, Illinois, which is pretty damn rare. When it happened, I was sitting on my bed in my new apartment & the bed started to shake, and since "earthquake" was not accessible to my mind, I swear to God I sat there thinking "Does this bed have Magic Fingers?"

Silly me. There was no place to put the quarter...

croquet

02:36 / 23.09.02

we just had an earthquake here on friday night. just a small one 4.0 but i got to feel it this time. everytime it happens i think a truck is going by. and i always look in the direction the earthquake is coming from to see where the truck is. how big was your earthquake?

The Strobe

07:03 / 23.09.02

I slept through that. Didn't even dream about it. What's up with me?

Shortfatdyke

07:15 / 23.09.02

This is really weird because when I heard about it on the news this morning I freaked out big time - I'd dreamt about my bed rocking uncontrollably. Since I live in east London, there's no way I oculd've felt the quake. Very, very odd.

Apparently it was quite a biggie. I should make a joke about how Birmingham is at last the centre of something, but I expect it was pretty scary if you were there, so I won't.

Bear

07:36 / 23.09.02

It's the end of the world!

Everyone to Greenland - quickly

How far did the shock waves travel, my flatmate reckons that he felt them although it was probably just a lorry

Ariadne

07:46 / 23.09.02

Well, I'm in East London too, sfd, and I'd swear I felt them - something woke me up, anyway.

The thing that's made me laugh is that lots of people apparently turned up in police stations, in their pyjamas, expecting the local bobby to do something. Shout 'Stop!' at the ground?

We're The Great Old Ones Now

09:21 / 23.09.02

sfd - you absolutely felt the quake. I live in London, and I was wide awake at 12:55 when it happened, loud and clear and recognisable. My floor wobbled, my windows shook, and I was extremely surprised. Started to do my California earthquake drill, but then it was over...

Shortfatdyke

09:33 / 23.09.02

So much for me being psychic then.

And I feel horrendously guilty - two of my cats were yowling/squeaking in the early hours and I was just not awake enough to go and see to them. Big hugs when I get home from work, I think.

Lilith Myth

09:44 / 23.09.02

I felt it too - I just thought it must be a huge fuck-off articulated lorry going down my street...

Mourne Kransky

10:51 / 23.09.02

Jehovah was clearly displeased by the Countryside Alliance protest.

You realise that in all the Earthquake movies, the first one you notice is always just a precursor to the Big One. Everybody, under your beds, now! sfd, put plant pots over the cats. Randy, wrap yourself in bubble wrap, immediately.

Never thought seismic disturbance would be another factor to consider before moving south of the border, down Brixton way...

Sax

11:43 / 23.09.02

Am I the only person in Britain who didn't get this, even though I was wide awake and sitting up in bed reading? Even the bloke I work with who lives a hundred yards away felt it.

Sometimes life is just so unfair.

We're The Great Old Ones Now

13:11 / 23.09.02

That's what you get for having a vibrating waterbed.

adamswish

14:10 / 23.09.02

yes you may all mock but I was there, just over five miles from the epicentre (which wasn't Birmingham but a little place called Gornal up near Dudley in the 'black country').

it was fun, if a little disorientating. Seven or eight waves of energy pushing through from the front of the house to the rear. Kind of like being hit by a bar code (think about it). Nothing major happened, no stuff being sent flying across the house. Guess we're lucky that our shelves in every room run the length rather than the width of the house.

but enough about this, before the guys from the west coast of the states chip in and remind us 4.8 on the ricter scale is a polite sneeze when it comes to tremours.

always remember, stand in a doorway when the big one strikes.

Sax

14:18 / 23.09.02

Nick: That's what you get for having a vibrating waterbed.

I suppose being suspended in the gimp suit from the rafters probably didn't help, either.

Tryphena Absent

15:02 / 23.09.02

I'm so disappointed that I didn't get any earthquake activity in Cardiff, weirdly I was watching a Buffy episode with an earthquake in it last night, life is so unfair I want an earthquake.

Mourne Kransky

17:16 / 23.09.02

Radio news says lots of after shocks may follow. I presume you have to drink them to steady your nerves. Or, in Sax' case, have them fed through the breathing hole with a straw.

No earthquakes up here but the Earth did move in our hotel room in Kelso on Saturday morning...

Our Lady of The Two Towers

17:23 / 23.09.02

[pout] I don't get to have any fun...

Spatula Clarke

18:03 / 23.09.02

Local news having a field day. "THOUSANDS WOKEN AS EARTHQUAKE HITS MIDLANDS"

Thousands woken...

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

18:10 / 23.09.02

Yeah, they said on the radio this morning that it was felt in London... I have vague memories of waking up at around 1-ish or thereabouts, and am now wondering whether that was what woke me...

My flatmate's well fucked off, though, having apparently "moved to this shithole from New Zealand just because you don't get earthquakes here... it's false fucking advertising!"

Much as I wouldn't want it to be a regular occurrence, I'm kind of pissed-off that I probably missed it...

Saveloy

15:33 / 24.09.02

ZoCher:

"You realise that in all the Earthquake movies, the first one you notice is always just a precursor to the Big One."

Oh, it's far worse than that. Once you start having earthquakes, volcanoes are never far behind. And where you have volcanoes, you have lava, and that means one thing: dinosaurs and cave men. It'll be the bloody Dark Ages all over again. This is what you get for coming out of the ERM.

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