A real good bed shaker
 

Around 1am this morning, just after I'd got the little one back to sleep after he woke us up crying Lou and I were kept awake by a sudden shaking of the whole house.

It took a couple of seconds to realise what was happening - EARTHQUAKE!!! By that time it was all over!

We are just so lucky to live in a country where the worst earthquake in 25 years does no more than cause a chimney to collapse slightly injuring 1 man.

Read more about it here:

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

Sorry, I had something cute to post ... but I had to wait for my eyes to quit shaking ... now I forgot what it was I was going to say. :D

Anyway, glad no one was seriously injured or that not much property damage resulted.

:thumbs:

Did the Earth move for you?

it woke us up!

we live around 25mile away from the epicentre

the whole house felt like it was going to collapse

That would scare the living daylights out of me. Glad you guys are safe.

We get shakers here off the Banda Sea and they can be really scary.

Glad everyones ok.

I remember quakes living out in Cali when I was growing up.

Good to learn that the UK contingent came through unscathed.

Earthquakes in the UK are very unusual, no?

jseal, i have never felt one before

however apparantly we have lots per year. but they are that weak we can rarely tell..

theres been a few 'big' ones but they still cause very minimal damage.

hot_shot_uk69,

Fair enough, I must admit I was thinking of Pixies people's experiences, not seismology recordings.

That link is kind of cool. PF will like that.

Good link ;)


another good site you have to dig around on
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/doc113?OpenForm

Mayhem and I and Baby Mayhem checking in.

I was 1/2 awake, sitting in bed nursing Baby at that time, and I thought that Daddy Mayhem was shaking his feet to shake the bed as he some times does to get to sleep, not while he is sleeping. I didn't think anything more about it until watching the morning news.

Now I have AC/DC in my head......you shook me allllll niiiiiight long.

Heard about this while perusing the news this morning.

And I was thinking England?

They don't have significant earthquakes in England.

Somebody must have wound the world the wrong way this morning.