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Posted: 23-09-2002 00:58 Post subject: Earthquake in Manchester

Bloody Hell! A huge earth tremor has just rocked my house!

Posted: 23-09-2002 01:07 Post subject: Re: Earthquake in Manchester

Posted: 23-09-2002 01:20 Post subject:

confirmed in yorkshire @00:53scared the cr@p out of me!

--kiel--

Posted: 23-09-2002 01:30 Post subject:

Nothing on the Worldwide Earthquake Locator as of 01:20.

--kiel--

Posted: 23-09-2002 01:34 Post subject:

I know!!! i shit myself everyone on the street woke up and ran out of there house expecting a fire or something.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2275158.stm

Posted: 23-09-2002 01:38 Post subject:

Useful site, Kiel - I'll mark it. Never thought I'd need to.

I remember one in the early eighties, when I lived in Southport.

This one tonight seemed rather bigger - it lasted about 15 seconds.

I didn't hear any structural damage - it was eerily quiet. I wonder
if there are any aerial phenomena? confused

Posted: 23-09-2002 01:41 Post subject:

Still no news on any quake sites ive found...but i have a .gif of some wiggly lines on a seismograph from norway if that floats anyones boat............I can't make head nor tail of it, but i'm assuming wiggly is good.....from our point of view.

--kiel--

Posted: 23-09-2002 01:43 Post subject:

Felt it in the midlands as well. Strange day - woken at 6:45 am by a loud rumble ( they were demolishing an old gas tower nearby. Still scary though when you're lying in bed asleep) and now an earthquake. Eek Eek

Posted: 23-09-2002 01:47 Post subject:

I remember the 80's big one too, 85 i think.

Just been reported on BBC NEWS 24 that it was felt the length and breadth of the country and wales got it worse!!!

Im on virgin radio in about 10 mins to report my story!!!

Posted: 23-09-2002 03:05 Post subject:

I was leching over Alan Rickman as Rasputin on telly and didn't notice anything! :p

Posted: 23-09-2002 03:21 Post subject:

I said the background Discord Level was off the scale this week didn't I?

Though UK "earthquakes" are pretty weedy. They had one in Loughborough that made the stamp machine malfunction, and another one that made a man "nearly fall off a ladder."

Shame I missed it.

Posted: 23-09-2002 03:56 Post subject: WoW!!

Just heard it on the radio--"the matt druge show", so I came on-line to see whats up! and ,reading your post..hope thats it!! I'll keep reading ..good luck cousins!!

Posted: 23-09-2002 07:49 Post subject:

I think this is the first time I heard a piece of news on FTMB before I got it from TV or radio! Good stuff!

But as a Fortean, this (from the Beeb link) intigued me:

Posted: 23-09-2002 09:44 Post subject:

OK...4.8 on the Richter scale centered on Birmingham at 00:54 (damn, must put my clocks foreward one minute Smile

)

not well known for our earthquakes i want reasons why. "local fault" is the current theory but here's a good comparison i found on ananova:-

Julian Bukits, an assistant seismologist with the BGS, says an earthquake of magnitude 4 is equivalent to 1,000 tonnes of TNT which is equivalent to the power of a small nuclear weapon.

So nice of Mr. Bukits to make that link at this time of global peace and serenity.....the conspiricy cogs are turning...........

--kiel--

Posted: 23-09-2002 10:09 Post subject:

I didn't feel a thing Sad

although I was fast asleep at the time like :p