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    • February 27, 2008 at 2:51 am #2391
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      Anyone else in the UK feel it? Shook my whole house around. Even shook my housemate outta bed! It was only a 5.4 but thats the biggest quake we're likely to see for a while. Any quake at all is rare.

      It was awesome. I'm still slightly excited.

    • February 27, 2008 at 3:20 am #9723
      the unlucky platypus
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      probably someone testing nukes underground somewhere.

      the annoying thing is that you've been in more earthquakes than i have and i'm out in the shaky west.

      glad to hear you're okay…you check everything to make sure nothing got damaged?

    • February 27, 2008 at 3:42 am #9726
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      Keymaster

      Nothing seems damaged but I'll check in the morning. Checking the news, doesn't seem to be much damage anywhere apart from a collapsed chimney that injured an old man. Other than that everything is fine i think.

    • February 27, 2008 at 6:05 am #9719
      Jeanie
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      [quote1204092259=the unlucky platypus]
      the annoying thing is that you've been in more earthquakes than i have and i'm out in the shaky west.
      [/quote1204092259]

      Don't worry, we're due for another good sized one soon. Actually, there have been a few recently, but CA is so big, you don't feel them all.

    • February 27, 2008 at 8:04 am #9732
      Surly
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      That was a really crazy. I thought there was a huge car crash on the road outside or something.

      I don't think anything's damaged. Quite exciting really, never been in an earthquake…

    • February 27, 2008 at 1:41 pm #9696
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      Yeah, I'm surprised we've hadn't had one locally around here. I've had my fair share of quakes, and I'll never get used to them.

      I hope you guys are ok.

    • February 27, 2008 at 3:40 pm #9741
      The Wind
      Member

      Oh. I thought this was going to be about a huge FPS tournament.

    • February 27, 2008 at 3:41 pm #9734
      Admin
      Keymaster

      Looks like there's been a bit of damage after all. Here's the report if anyone's interested.

      [link=hyperlink url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7266136.stm[/link]

    • February 27, 2008 at 5:07 pm #9743
      Surly
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      It seems everyone I talk to was asleep through it. I was somehow lying awake when it happened but some didn't even knew it happened at all…

    • February 27, 2008 at 7:17 pm #9709
      Admin
      Keymaster

      How close were you ( and Dave) to the epicenter?

    • February 27, 2008 at 7:42 pm #9747
      Admin
      Keymaster

      I was about 40 miles away I think. I think Surly lives down south so he'd have been about 200.

    • February 27, 2008 at 7:44 pm #9749
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      Keymaster

      So, you probably felt a good amount of shaking.

    • February 27, 2008 at 8:56 pm #9751
      Surly
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      I live in Norwich. Which is about 120 miles from where it started. I didn't feel that much shaking I just remember it being so loud…

    • February 27, 2008 at 10:35 pm #9652
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      Keymaster

      I was up at 1AM working on some stuff and just wondered WTF is happening… then saw my Kitten wake up look around and fall back asleep. I knew what it was just thought it was 'rather random'. 😛

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