Delusions of Adequacy
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UK Earthquake
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.
Darkness isn't there, but you can't see through it
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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.
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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
Last edited by spikey_richie; 04-28-2007 at 07:42 PM.
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Well, thank GOD it wasn't worse and your family is OK...
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Didn't feel a think in Leeds *shrug*
MInd I didn't wake up until 11:30GMT this morning :p
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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.
Delusions of Adequacy
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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.
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That's the spirit.
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