The earth just moved...

Super_Kevin_Davies · Post by **Super_Kevin_Davies** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 1:02 am

No seriously, it did!!! Just two minutes ago...

Sat here in bed in South Manchester browsing the wanderer as you do....and my whole room started to shake and couple of things fell off my desk.... frightened the living daylights out of me it has!! I'm waiting for the aftershock....

mummywhycantieatcrayons · Post by **mummywhycantieatcrayons** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 1:08 am

Phew.. I thought for a moment you were going to describe an amorous encounter to us....!

Super_Kevin_Davies · Post by **Super_Kevin_Davies** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 1:13 am

mummywhycantieatcrayons wrote:Phew.. I thought for a moment you were going to describe an amorous encounter to us....!

hahaha

- well it was when my bed started to jostle slightly towards my desk that I realised something was a bit off...

Athers · Post by **Athers** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 1:24 am

Reportedly 30 miles south of Hull, felt as high as Consett and as low as London.

I didn't feel anything.

Super_Kevin_Davies · Post by **Super_Kevin_Davies** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 1:27 am

It was quite surreal and lasted for what felt like ages as I stared in disbelief at the items moving on the surfaces!!! I'm sure it was probably only 10 - 20 seconds though...

Super_Kevin_Davies · Post by **Super_Kevin_Davies** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 1:29 am

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7266136.stm

Don't think it was damage worthy, well not in Manchester at least!

hisroyalgingerness · Post by **hisroyalgingerness** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 8:26 am

mummywhycantieatcrayons wrote:Phew.. I thought for a moment you were going to describe an amorous encounter to us....!

aye was about to say "you're very welcome"

Batman · Post by **Batman** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 8:26 am

I was on the phone to the missus at the time, and it was most odd.

Felt a tremor like that here in Preston about 5yrs back........quite exciting (oo-er)

hisroyalgingerness · Post by **hisroyalgingerness** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 8:27 am

not when you're top floor of a polygon bar that was shaky at the best of times

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 8:55 am

Twas about one-o'clock and I was lying there in the dark dozing, when it felt like someone had sat down on the bed and then the cane drawer chest at the end of the bed started rattling. Gave me a bit of a jar, enough to make me leap out of bed and wonder what the hell was going on. Didn't know till this morning it was an earthquake, but thankfully I'm calling off the exorcism.

marshall_42 · Post by **marshall_42** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:38 am

Batman wrote:I was on the phone to the missus at the time, and it was most odd.

Felt a tremor like that here in Preston about 5yrs back........quite exciting (oo-er)

On the phone at 1 in the morning. How was the conversation? 'You hang up', 'No, you hang up' repeat ad infinitum

Dave Sutton's barnet · Post by **Dave Sutton's barnet** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 10:54 am

Up late watching The Last King of Scotland, Mrs B thought a burglar was rattling the back door. Thankfully she didn't wake her husband, who'd been slumbering peacefully for an hour or more. I had, however, been awoken by that 6am explosion at a Hemel Hempstead oil planet the other year - that boomed against the windows.

There are folk in Brighton who claim to have felt last night's tremble, but they might just be lonely and want to talk to people on the telly. Anyway, I thought the Richter Scale has been superseded by a newer measurement method...

jmjhb · Post by **jmjhb** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 11:10 am

Felt it here in Sheffield, thought it was a truck going past or something.

superjohnmcginlay · Post by **superjohnmcginlay** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 11:15 am

I have no idea what youre on about. It was a bit windy - feckin bastards closing M62 where I was coming off!!

Little Green Man · Post by **Little Green Man** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 11:15 am

Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:Anyway, I thought the Richter Scale has been superseded by a newer measurement method...

Don't think so, although I think it has a 'more correct' name now - they probably found out recently that Richter was a pornographer or something.

I know the guy from the BGS who always gets rung up at god-forsaken hours to comment on these seismic events - 4am this morning on 5Live. I used to feel sorry for him until I discovered he's on a tidy wedge for such out of hours calls.

InsaneApache · Post by **InsaneApache** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 11:21 am

Little Green Man wrote:
Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:Anyway, I thought the Richter Scale has been superseded by a newer measurement method...
Don't think so, although I think it has a 'more correct' name now - they probably found out recently that Richter was a pornographer or something.

I know the guy from the BGS who always gets rung up at god-forsaken hours to comment on these seismic events - 4am this morning on 5Live. I used to feel sorry for him until I discovered he's on a tidy wedge for such out of hours calls.

I thought he was a WWI flying ace!

I was watching the telly when the floor wobbled, as it's been said, like a lorry going past. It was still as windy as buggery so I checked to see that my chimney hadn't fallen down. Then I went to bed, unfazed.

communistworkethic · Post by **communistworkethic** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 11:28 am

Little Green Man wrote:
Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:Anyway, I thought the Richter Scale has been superseded by a newer measurement method...
Don't think so, although I think it has a 'more correct' name now - they probably found out recently that Richter was a pornographer or something.

I know the guy from the BGS who always gets rung up at god-forsaken hours to comment on these seismic events - 4am this morning on 5Live. I used to feel sorry for him until I discovered he's on a tidy wedge for such out of hours calls.

the term richter scale is only used by the media.

Seismologists use similar measures that fit with his basic premise but extend the area of measurent of magnitude from the seismograph, but they measure differebt aspects of the wave function created by the event at different points in the earth's crust/mantle etc.

Common measurement is "surface-wave" - "Ms"

Dave Sutton's barnet · Post by **Dave Sutton's barnet** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 11:57 am

cheers chaps, thought so

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 12:10 pm

Dave Sutton's barnet wrote: Anyway, I thought the Richter Scale has been superseded by a newer measurement method...

Aye, the sphincter scale.

Little Green Man · Post by **Little Green Man** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 1:03 pm

communistworkethic wrote:
Little Green Man wrote:
Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:Anyway, I thought the Richter Scale has been superseded by a newer measurement method...
Don't think so, although I think it has a 'more correct' name now - they probably found out recently that Richter was a pornographer or something.

I know the guy from the BGS who always gets rung up at god-forsaken hours to comment on these seismic events - 4am this morning on 5Live. I used to feel sorry for him until I discovered he's on a tidy wedge for such out of hours calls.
the term richter scale is only used by the media.

Seismologists use similar measures that fit with his basic premise but extend the area of measurent of magnitude from the seismograph, but they measure differebt aspects of the wave function created by the event at different points in the earth's crust/mantle etc.

Common measurement is "surface-wave" - "Ms"

Sorry, my misunderstanding, I thought DSB meant that a change had been made to the scale that media uses to present earthquake magnitudes to the great unwashed. There are of course other more scientifically meaningful ways of measuring such things.

Unfortunately my degree in geology has eroded to a degree of geology so I recall very little about seismology these days. I still know what slickensides are, though, not that it's any help here.

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