Topic: Did the Earth move for you tonight (Read 9007 times)

Stavros · « **on:** February 27, 2008, 01:53:56 am »

At Approx1am today an earth quake with it's epicentre in the hull area has been reported,OK own up who dropped his boat and caused it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Stavros(just finished work and cant sleep)

Shipmate60 · « **Reply #1 on:** February 27, 2008, 09:10:57 am »

Stav,
Did you drop your Wallet?

Bob

Pirate · « **Reply #2 on:** February 27, 2008, 09:21:30 am »

I confess twas me, I started up my new tug motor and it seems to work well then!!!
Pirate..........deepest darkest Lincolnshire

Martin (Admin) · « **Reply #3 on:** February 27, 2008, 10:05:14 am »

I was up spying on you guys at the time ... the quake scared the willies out of me!
(... did you know the Mayhem Forum has the home spy cam option fitted?!? )

malcolmfrary · « **Reply #4 on:** February 27, 2008, 10:10:14 am »

Thought it was the beans on toast for supper going for an action replay.

DickyD · « **Reply #5 on:** February 27, 2008, 10:20:20 am »

Quote from: Martin - Forum Admin on February 27, 2008, 10:05:14 am

I was up spying on you guys at the time ... the quake scared the willies out of me!
(... did you know the Mayhem Forum has the home spy cam option fitted?!? )

I new someone was watching me

White Ensign · « **Reply #6 on:** February 27, 2008, 10:28:05 am »

Richard...... I can see you!

DickyD · « **Reply #7 on:** February 27, 2008, 10:46:40 am »

Hi Jörg

Beachcomber · « **Reply #8 on:** February 27, 2008, 11:23:48 am »

Wonder if it moved the "Riverdance"

BobF · « **Reply #9 on:** February 27, 2008, 12:53:21 pm »

Hi all,
I live in Yorkshire.

Just for a moment, I thought I was having the best

of my life. But then I woke up.

Bob :(

DickyD · « **Reply #10 on:** February 27, 2008, 01:06:31 pm »

No mustn't

tigertiger · « **Reply #11 on:** February 27, 2008, 01:32:31 pm »

Just because your paranoid is doesn't mean they aren't watching

YOU :-\

BobF · « **Reply #12 on:** February 27, 2008, 05:18:24 pm »

DickyD

No you mustn't

rem2007 · « **Reply #13 on:** February 27, 2008, 05:30:41 pm »

Kind of a personal question isn't it!

The only thing moving around here is the door on th toilet, as they all have the flu!

Well at least they're quiet.

Bryan Young · « **Reply #14 on:** February 27, 2008, 06:36:26 pm »

Perhaps it was just JP wending his way home from the gravy train station.

Ghost in the shell · « **Reply #15 on:** February 27, 2008, 10:37:07 pm »

I live in Stoke on Trent, and well if the rest of you were singing Martika as the earth moved under your feet, Im sorry but I NEVER FELT A THING! first I knew about it was wen I saw the news at 2-30pm

BobF · « **Reply #16 on:** February 27, 2008, 11:23:43 pm »

Hi all,
on a serious note, it really did rock my house, as well as many thousands of others.
It was the most peculiar feeling, rather like being in a caravan (no don't) driven across a ploughed field. I lost a window, but otherwise all ok. I've been in a building when a bomb went off, and also suffered from heavy lorries rumbling my other house, but this was very different. I was at the top of a three storey house, and it was as if it was on top of jelly. It was enough to make my head go from side to side.

Bob

sheerline · « **Reply #17 on:** February 28, 2008, 12:04:43 am »

I was watching some rubbish on the tv at the time, there was a noise which preceeded the actual shaking, something like a heavy vehicle engine which ran for about 5 -10 secs and I thought there was a lorry or something heavy pulled up in the road outside. I was about to get up and see what it was when the house began to shake and it rattled the contents of one or two cabinets whilst at the same time there were a few ominous creaking noises coming from the buildings structure. At first I was totally bewidered and thought SWMBO had fallen out of bed

(even though she isnt fat) but as soon as it settled an earthquake was the only explanation but I couldn't really believe it had really happened.. not here.. not in Norfolk surely! Inspection of the house has reveled no damage, it's 250 years old anyway and I reckon a good shaking probably did a tenners worth of improvement rather than damage!

Did anyone else experience any noises prior to the actual shaking or have I possibly heard something else which just happened to be co-incidental?

DavieTait · « **Reply #18 on:** February 28, 2008, 12:15:49 am »

I was up in Ullapool in 1987 when we had a small earthquake ( pretty common up there ) and there was a sound for about 5 seconds before the vibrations that sounded like a lorry going past the window.
The one last night shook stuff off my mates mantlepiece and she lives in Knott End just beside Fleetwood !!!

BobF · « **Reply #19 on:** February 28, 2008, 08:45:56 am »

Hi sheerline,

There was a pulsing rumble, but not really sure how few seconds before the shaking started. This then continued at the same time.

I first thought it was a chinook helicopter at roof level.

Bob

Colin H · « **Reply #20 on:** February 28, 2008, 04:21:52 pm »

Bob that is a very good description of the noise I experienced both before and after the actual shaking. What was really funny was SWMBO jumping on my knee in fear.

Another quite funny thing was that I live in Nottingham and I could swear the noise came from the West travelled through the house and carried on to the East. Strange as the epicenter was some 40 odd miles to the North East of me.

Another strange one is that the day after I was working at a guys house in Sutton In Ashfield some 12 miles north of me. Both he and his wife were awake at the time and heard and felt nothing.

Yours Colin H.

Colin Bishop · « **Reply #21 on:** February 28, 2008, 05:09:12 pm »

I think a lot depends upon the underlying geology where you live. Some rocks transmit the pressure waves while others soak them up so the effect is very hit and miss outside the immediate area.

sheerline · « **Reply #22 on:** February 28, 2008, 05:52:07 pm »

Hi Bob, just had a Chinook over the house this afternoon so if your description of the preceeding rumble resembled that, then it differed from the one I experienced. Mine was apparently a bit higher in frequency but as has been mentioned, it could be down to underlying rock densities and the like, transmitting vibrations in a different way.
All interesting stuff this and my first experience of an earthquake... always wondered what it would be like. I think if I lived in Japan or some of these areas which have these phemomena on a more frequent basis, I would want to move out as it would be a bit nerve racking... still, it's a good excuse for not rushing ahead with house improvements as you never know when all your hard work is going to be undone! Good excuse for staying in the workshop if you ask me!

portside II · « **Reply #23 on:** February 28, 2008, 06:01:45 pm »

ha ha since when did the

police start using Chinook's in Brid . it must have been all that rattling in your head making you

confused

daz

alan colson · « **Reply #24 on:** February 28, 2008, 07:09:28 pm »

Have any other countries started a fund to help us out after the earthquake? I think not so next time we here of a fund started for another country after they have a problem sod em.

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Stavros