UK Earthquake

[Ototero]

According to the news here in the UK, the was an earthquake a short way off-shore from where I live, Deal, which is a town 7 miles from Dover.

A 4.3 Richter, a few thousand homes without electricity, some homes with structural damage.

It happened at 8:17 am. Both my kids felt their body shaking. Me, I slept through it without feeling a thing. I sleep on a waterbed so maybe I wouldn't have felt it anyway.

Earthquakes here in the UK are very big news because they are so rare. Thank goodness.

[Beerknurd]

Yikes... That's scary... We had a tornado about 1 mile from our house a few weeks ago. It blew our back fence down, but that's about it. The row of houses a block behind us got the worst of it. Alot of them lost their sheds and had some severe roof damage. We were very lucky.

[spikey_richie]

Yeah I just read that on the BBC site. We live in Warwickshire so miles away from that shaker.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/6602677.stm

In SoCal where I am at the moment, it seems there's one every day or 2 - we just don't feel them as they're so small

[Opteron]

Well, thank GOD it wasn't worse and your family is OK...:qgreenjumpers:

[drezha]

Didn't feel a think in Leeds *shrug*

MInd I didn't wake up until 11:30GMT this morning :p

[vaughan]

Ototero - good to hear you are safe. I was near Rotorua in New Zealand today and that is definitely a geothermally active hotspot. No earthquakes here however. :icon_wink:

[Ototero]

From the news reports yesterday and today, only 1 person was slightly injured.

It'll take more than a paltry earthquake to stop the AMD stats getting through. :)

[Steve Lux]

That's the spirit.