Any UK people still up? EARTHQUAKE! I am shit up.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:00 (eighteen years ago)
yep we felt it here in Hull, where are you?
― Thomas, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:01 (eighteen years ago)
I'm in Lincoln, it was pretty shaky here!
― limón, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:01 (eighteen years ago)
It lasted about 30 seconds here, power went off.
― limón, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:02 (eighteen years ago)
Nottingham. How was it for you? It wasn't too bad here, but I've never noticeably felt one before, so I'm still a bit freaked. Started like a car thrum, but became properly wall-shaky quite quickly.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:03 (eighteen years ago)
we didn't lose power but it was pretty shaky
― Thomas, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:03 (eighteen years ago)
No power cut here, though, and the animals haven't gone crazy loud. I feel a bit dizzy, mind you.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:05 (eighteen years ago)
feelable tremors in hackney -- i was looking at my computer desk thinking why is it shaking, then the whole building shook a bit and made noises
haha turned to ile for reliable info obv, hi foax long time no etc
― mark s, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:06 (eighteen years ago)
Just hit us. Fucking terrifying. I thought the picture on my monitor was going funny, then realised it was shaking, then it built to a crescendo.
― Lynskey, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:06 (eighteen years ago)
where are you lynskey?
― Thomas, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:07 (eighteen years ago)
Manchester btw
― Lynskey, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:07 (eighteen years ago)
The power didn't stay off long, it just went off 2-3 times quickly. We're in an old house though, so the shaking might have mesed with the electrics or soemthing.
― limón, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:07 (eighteen years ago)
bbc says "reports of tremor felt in west midlands area, more soon"
― Thomas, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:08 (eighteen years ago)
manchester building shake craziness. wow so was this north only?
myspace bulletins section has just exploded into life with a mix of hysteria excitement and apocalyptic panic.
― pisces, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:09 (eighteen years ago)
now on news24
― Thomas, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:11 (eighteen years ago)
yo leicester big quakin
― zappi, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:13 (eighteen years ago)
north only if north includes hackney pisces
― mark s, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:13 (eighteen years ago)
ah. gotcha. is that better or worse i wonder.
― pisces, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:14 (eighteen years ago)
Yes, woke me up in North Yorks.
― Billy Dods, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:15 (eighteen years ago)
the wonders of blogging..sorted by date on Google Blog Search http://tinyurl.com/3yzblh
bloggers report the following locations re: experiencing the earthquake...
Derby Rotherham Lancashire Oxford Norwich Manchester Lincolnshire Coventry Nottingham Bedfordshire Leamington Market Harborough
― djmartian, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:16 (eighteen years ago)
is hackney furthest south on that list? it was negligeable here but enough to get me back on ilx!
― mark s, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:17 (eighteen years ago)
Nooo! I wanted to feel an earthquake! I was hanging up my clothes at that time I think, but didn't notice anything. Nearest I've come was being woken up by that fuel dump exploding in Hemel Hempstead a couple of years ago.
Mark, I first heard about it on my AFC Wimbledon forum so it's likely it made it further south.
― Mark C, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:19 (eighteen years ago)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2275158.stm
― limón, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:20 (eighteen years ago)
checked again...No mentions that i can see of London...Nottingham mentioned alot
― djmartian, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:20 (eighteen years ago)
4.8
― limón, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:21 (eighteen years ago)
Oh arse, I'm thick, someone pointed me to an old story. Sorry.
BBC 5 live..4.7 on the richter scale
― djmartian, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:21 (eighteen years ago)
35 miles south of kingston-upon-hull according to yank expert
― djmartian, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:22 (eighteen years ago)
being in a block of flats in manchester, that was a bit spooky! the lights wobbled and the lamp stand was all over. :(
― not_goodwin, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:22 (eighteen years ago)
yank expert sez some reports even in London ...expect aftershocks
― djmartian, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:23 (eighteen years ago)
cool!
― not_goodwin, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:24 (eighteen years ago)
35 miles south of Hull..that would be somewhere in Lincolnshire? as the centre
― djmartian, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:25 (eighteen years ago)
i am way ahead of yank expert
― mark s, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:25 (eighteen years ago)
"35 miles south of kingston-upon-hull"
This must be bloody close to Lincoln then
― limón, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:25 (eighteen years ago)
took bbc news 19 mins to mention. a poor effort
― not_goodwin, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:26 (eighteen years ago)
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=0.30%C2%B0W+++53.46%C2%B0N&ie=UTF8&ll=53.501117,-0.65918&spn=5.988068,14.172363&z=6&iwloc=addr
― Lynskey, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:27 (eighteen years ago)
Real link this time
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7266136.stm
― limón, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:27 (eighteen years ago)
Wow, Caistor
Nothing ever happens in Lincolnshire, we'll never hear the end of this
― limón, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:28 (eighteen years ago)
BBC 5live were on the case quick...they had phone calls in from the public, just after the news at 1.00
― djmartian, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:28 (eighteen years ago)
it had never occurred to me that earthquakes happen in britain
i feel mad dumb
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:30 (eighteen years ago)
I live on a main road and there are a lot of lorries going by at night which shakes the house a bit. So even if there is a decent aftershock I won't know it really is one, grrr.
― Mark C, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:31 (eighteen years ago)
Well BIG HOOS you can tell by the excitement at a wee one that they're something of a novelty to us!
― Mark C, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:32 (eighteen years ago)
I was pretty surprised at how slow the BBC site was with this.
Still feel dizzy ;_;
xxxpost HOOS they don't happen often (or at least, ones that you can feel don't, there are lots of undetectable ones)
― emil.y, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:32 (eighteen years ago)
west midlands is the usual centre -- theere's a big fault line and small ones aren't uncommon
the unit my mum and dad's record player was on fell off the wall during one, and another left cracks all along the landing ceiling
in the first one mum thought a helicopter was landing on the roof; the second she thought a cow had jumped in the downstairs window -- when quizzed how on earth a cow jumping in the downstairs window was a vibration she felt she recognised, she gave NO CONVINCING ANSWER
― mark s, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:36 (eighteen years ago)
This all seems like an excellent opportunity for SCIENCE
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:38 (eighteen years ago)
BBC News now saying it was 15 miles northeast of Lincoln
― limón, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:39 (eighteen years ago)
and 4.7
― limón, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:40 (eighteen years ago)
Take that West Midlands
I’m sure we’ll survive, it’ll be forgotten about by the evening after Gordon Burns has said his piece on it.
― not_goodwin, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:42 (eighteen years ago)
felt it here in lincolnshire, pretty cool. i was mixing down some music staring at the moon out the window, super weird!
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2008nyae.php
― Crackle Box, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:43 (eighteen years ago)
felt the quake before the alert arrived...maybe too close
― omar little, Thursday, 12 September 2024 16:52 (one year ago)
same here. I heard it was 5.1 too
― brony james (k3vin k.), Thursday, 12 September 2024 16:53 (one year ago)
6.9 in Humboldt County. Tsunami warning holy shit
― brimstead, Thursday, 5 December 2024 18:55 (one year ago)
I just got a tsunami warning too
My family lives in Humboldt Co.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 5 December 2024 18:56 (one year ago)
it was probably off Petrolia on the Lost Coast, west of Ferndale
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 5 December 2024 18:57 (one year ago)
Felt that one down here in SF. Was like a high 3 light 4 shake. But 200 miles away? That was no small quake
Hope everyone stays safe up there
― octobeard, Thursday, 5 December 2024 18:59 (one year ago)
Where am I supposed to evac to? Twin Peaks??
― More Cumin Than Cumin (Leee), Thursday, 5 December 2024 18:59 (one year ago)
I remember when I was in high school in humboldt, we got a tsunami warning and everybody went out to watch it lol
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 5 December 2024 19:01 (one year ago)
Got the warning, felt nothing.
― sarahell, Thursday, 5 December 2024 19:02 (one year ago)
the tsunami thing probably won't materialize... those are usually associated with quakes in Alaska etc., where the waves have a long distance to build up
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 5 December 2024 19:07 (one year ago)
Exactly, now upgraded to 7.0 offshore. Another 5.8 one near Cobb, CA.
― bratwurst autumn (Eazy), Thursday, 5 December 2024 19:09 (one year ago)
Same here. Very disorienting.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 5 December 2024 19:12 (one year ago)
Dunno how legit this is but I'm not in the hazard zone: https://www.sf72.org/hazard/tsunamis
― More Cumin Than Cumin (Leee), Thursday, 5 December 2024 19:16 (one year ago)
CA geological survey website is unsurprisingly not accessible.
― More Cumin Than Cumin (Leee), Thursday, 5 December 2024 19:18 (one year ago)
my family up there not responding to texts, maybe some cellphone outages
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 5 December 2024 19:20 (one year ago)
apparently there was a cluster of smaller quakes in the same area, yesterday morning
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 5 December 2024 19:26 (one year ago)
Here's when it would happen, if anything (12:10 p.m. PST):
Tsunami waves are expected to reach the coast in San Francisco around 12:10 pm. Tsunami sirens are going off along the coastline in parts of Northern California. Waves may already be impacting Eureka and Fort Bragg. pic.twitter.com/9cmFi9jWOS— Colin McCarthy (@US_Stormwatch) December 5, 2024
― bratwurst autumn (Eazy), Thursday, 5 December 2024 19:29 (one year ago)
!
Evacuation Order for Tsunami issued for West Berkeley: "Tsunami coming to West Berkeley. EVACUATE NOW. Stay east of 7th St. See https://t.co/Q7EBsaq1Se.Immediate threat to life. This is a lawful order to leave now. The area is lawfully closed to public access." pic.twitter.com/9zgM9k1BNl— Colin McCarthy (@US_Stormwatch) December 5, 2024
― bratwurst autumn (Eazy), Thursday, 5 December 2024 19:31 (one year ago)
heard from the family - they said it was really long and rolling, but not much damage reported
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 5 December 2024 19:33 (one year ago)
Good to hear Andy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzMlCj0hf4M
― More Cumin Than Cumin (Leee), Thursday, 5 December 2024 19:37 (one year ago)
my stepbrother said all his surfing buddies are out on the water, they may not have even known about it
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 5 December 2024 19:41 (one year ago)
Tsunami warning is being rescinded, which is good.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 5 December 2024 19:49 (one year ago)
too bad, that could've been the end of Emeryville
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 5 December 2024 19:55 (one year ago)
!🐦[Evacuation Order for Tsunami issued for West Berkeley: "Tsunami coming to West Berkeley. EVACUATE NOW. Stay east of 7th St. See https://t.co/Q7EBsaq1Se🕸.Immediate threat to life. This is a lawful order to leave now. The area is lawfully closed to public access." pic.twitter.com/9zgM9k1BNl🕸— Colin McCarthy (@US_Stormwatch) December 5, 2024🕸]🐦
― sarahell, Thursday, 5 December 2024 20:01 (one year ago)
― sarahell, Thursday, 5 December 2024 20:05 (one year ago)
RIP Pixar
― octobeard, Thursday, 5 December 2024 20:13 (one year ago)
That's what they get for announcing TS5.
Looks like the Berkeley evac order is also rescinded: https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/12/05/tsunami-warning-issued-for-california-berkeley
― More Cumin Than Cumin (Leee), Thursday, 5 December 2024 20:16 (one year ago)
Is that Chevy’s still there?
― sarahell, Thursday, 5 December 2024 21:03 (one year ago)
i didn't feel this at all though my kid claimed to in santa cruz which is weird. I was at the gym when this evaucation order hit (I'm about three blocks away from the evac zone in berkeley), my wife told me to go home and rescue our dogs. So left, heading toward this potential tsunami, to rescue two chihuahuas who did not even register that there had been an earthquake earlier and continued licking themselves in their dog beds. evac order cancelled when I was halfway home. what an annoying day!
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 5 December 2024 21:48 (one year ago)
the Chevy's is empty, they moved out, leaving that awesome location vacant.
hey now my recording studio is there
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 5 December 2024 21:49 (one year ago)
you should move your studio to the vacant Chevy's, though freeway noise might be an issue
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 5 December 2024 22:59 (one year ago)
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/earthquakes/california-earthquakes-aftershocks-tsunami/3576434/
a fair number of aftershocks
― omar little, Friday, 6 December 2024 20:24 (one year ago)
i like how news organizations always send a crew to photograph supermarket aisles full of items that fell off shelves, because that photo-op is so completely reliable
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 6 December 2024 20:33 (one year ago)
the Guardian had a photo of a destroyed bong shop, glass everywhere
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 6 December 2024 20:50 (one year ago)
San Diego 6.0? 😬
― omar little, Monday, 14 April 2025 17:11 (eleven months ago)
Magnitude 6.7 earthquakeAffected countries: United States and Mexico3 miles from San Diego Country Estates, CA · 10:08 AM
― sleeve, Monday, 14 April 2025 17:21 (eleven months ago)
I'm seeing 5.2?
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ci40925991/
― octobeard, Monday, 14 April 2025 17:30 (eleven months ago)
ah ok, I got the earlier one from a coworker in CA
― sleeve, Monday, 14 April 2025 17:32 (eleven months ago)
Pretty decent lil 4.2 earthquake. The epicenter was Dwight and Piedmont in Berkeley.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 22 September 2025 11:17 (five months ago)
A couple things fell over in my kitchen. That was a good jolt, I had a hard time getting back to sleep
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 22 September 2025 16:38 (five months ago)
Yeah, I felt it pretty strongly. I had a hard time going back to sleep because I started thinking about how the current federal government might (not) respond to a massive quake in this area.
― beard papa, Monday, 22 September 2025 17:43 (five months ago)
oh yeah... if they won't even help Huckabee in Arkansas with flood relief, there's no way they'd lift a single finger for the Bay Area
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 22 September 2025 17:54 (five months ago)
that was kinda fun
― disco stabbing horror (lukas), Monday, 22 September 2025 17:59 (five months ago)
Agreed, a nice little jolt. But I also thought similar to beard and Andy there.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 22 September 2025 18:05 (five months ago)
Yeah I woke up with an "oh shit", but fortunately it was quick (<10 seconds I think). This is def the last time we want a big one hitting the bay. I also left my emergency water jug in the storage unit. Need to grab it and fill it again.
― octobeard, Monday, 22 September 2025 18:28 (five months ago)
Had a plate fall off the dishrack and it didn’t break. Felt grateful for the soft story retrofit the landlord did awhile back. I also felt gratified by my upbringing in storing valuable breakable items on lower shelves or at the very back of cabinets.
― sarahell, Tuesday, 23 September 2025 16:02 (five months ago)
I felt a baby aftershock yesterday afternoon... just a quick 'thud!', no real shaking to speak of
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 23 September 2025 16:07 (five months ago)
Yeah, felt that too. Like a quick snap of the fingers.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 23 September 2025 16:15 (five months ago)
another little jolt
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 8 December 2025 22:57 (three months ago)