Just had my afternoon modelling interupted by what I thought was a large vehicle passing the house. As there is no through route past our house it is unusual to get big trucks etc but sometimes. Then the whole house shuddered ! Any talk about animals being sensitive to nature is *rap. 2 of the dogs slept through it the other kept playing. Afterwards checked the cantina (cellar) luckily the railway was ok !. Oh and the rest of the house seems ok too.
Scary stuff! Glad all is well. :thumbsup:
Only ever experienced one (in the UK) and I very nearly sh messed the bed.
Hope all is OK and there are no recurrences or aftershocks :thumbsup:
Didn't experience it myself,I was at work driving down roads with potholes and scars from all the utility companies ace excavarion work.
I did experience a couple some years ago though.One was centred around Dudley nwar Brum and the other had an epicentre somewhere near Gainsborough.This one properly shook my house and scared the poo out of me.Even the telly,which is a 32inch lcd job wobbled.
Does anyone know where the epicentre and what magnitude on the richter scale todays was?
Pete
:Class37: :NGaugersRule:
5.4 centred on Parma so watch out for dodgy cheese and under cured ham in the next few weeks.
Guees I don't want to watch any of those 2012 "doom" movies this week. ???
Found on t'internet from the Belfast Telegraph
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/earthquake-shakes-northern-italy-16109922.html (http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/earthquake-shakes-northern-italy-16109922.html)
Thanks nobby for your interest. If the worst comes to the worst is your Layout DC ? as I will have to rehome to a non DCC enviroment preferably Steam loving and then there are the dogs, and of course Mrs H.... :smiley-laughing:
The one Pete Mc mentioned in Dudley was the one I experienced at about 2 in the morning. No structural damage was caused but one pair of underdungies had to be destroyed as a result.
Jerry - in my lifetime there have already been 2 x Mrs H. Please believe me when I say 'thanks but no thanks' :smiley-laughing: :wave:
We had a 2 point something over here in County Donegal this week, apparently somebody thought it was the sound that the Aurora Borealis makes :o which appeared the same night! :smiley-laughing:
Had one here last year. I think it was a 6.0 in Richmond VA about 100 miles north of us. My office shook like a cardboard dolls house. It was quite exciting!
Glad all is well though Jerry. :thumbsup:
If only the groundshakers that we call earthquakes over here scare us,god only knows what it must've been like for all those poor people in New Zealand and Japan.
Can't begin to imagine the terror that they must have felt.Although last night I had the wierdist sci fi type of nightmare that had me scared rigid and sweating like a.......
Pete
:Class37: :NGaugersRule:
Quote from: Mustermark on January 27, 2012, 07:42:30 PM
Had one here last year. I think it was a 6.0 in Richmond VA about 100 miles north of us. My office shook like a cardboard dolls house. It was quite exciting!
Glad all is well though Jerry. :thumbsup:
I was waiting for you REAL QUAKIES to one up me. Thanks for your kind thoughts anyway. :beers:
Quote from: Jerry Howlett on January 27, 2012, 10:30:50 PM
Quote from: Mustermark on January 27, 2012, 07:42:30 PM
Had one here last year. I think it was a 6.0 in Richmond VA about 100 miles north of us. My office shook like a cardboard dolls house. It was quite exciting!
Glad all is well though Jerry. :thumbsup:
I was waiting for you REAL QUAKIES to one up me. Thanks for your kind thoughts anyway. :beers:
Think of it more as an expression of empathy.
It is very freaky when it happens.
a former colleague of mine's wife moved to california with her new husband and when he visited his daughters he experianced what to locals a non event quake, he described panicing like a young girl while his two young girls turned into the adults and taught him what to do in such an event,,,,
im glad i live in a non earthquake region,,,,,
Very pleased you are OK and the layout is still in one piece, here's hoping you don't get anymore shakes.
To quote Victor " I DON'T BELIEVE IT "...
One year on all bar two days and we got another one this afternoon ! , this time centred on a town only 10kms across the valley. Luckily I had the presence of mind to grab Mrs H first as opposed to last year when I grabbed the dogs first....oops.
Anyway nothing compared to the Southern hemisphere members but to quote Elvis ...."I'm all shook up". :doh: :doh:
Hope all is OK, Jerry :o
You must have got some brownie points from Mrs H, though :)
Thanks Mick,
All fine don't know if I have earned enough to actually buy any goodies though...
To quote Mrs H , standing over my shoulder this minute (without any pointy implements) Argghhh..... Actually, says Mrs H. I only pulled her slightly whereas last time I picked up the dogs!!!
That's because dogs are always happy to see you. ;)
Allan
I have a spare hard hat if you want to pick it up when you visit the old country
I was in the South Island of New Zealand last year when the fatal 6.3 struck in Christchurch. Luckily I was in Greymouth with the train but got stranded over there, managed to fly back the next day to find our car was within the Red Zone and we couldnt get it out, ended up being 13 days before we could get back.
Having lived in Wellington I have experienced literally thousands of Earthquakes in my life time, they usually didn't bother me. The constant aftershocks from the 6.3 however were terrifying!
At least I could leave and go home to Auckland, knowing my home was still standing. I feel sorry for the Cantabrians though!
As I said you Guys really know the Quakes. But for us it was a 5.0 and this time the epicentre was only about 10kms so scary. Hats off to you though.
Quote from: newportnobby on January 27, 2012, 05:18:57 PM
Only ever experienced one (in the UK) and I very nearly sh messed the bed.
Reading back through the thread I found the above old post from NPN, noticable earthquakes are quite unusual for the UK
I wonder where and when !?
About 15/20y ago I was at home SW of Bristol and felt a wee wobble/unsteady on feet feeling and thought "too much alcohol the night before" and thought no more of it until wife came home, she reported that the glassware in the racks (research horticultural lab) were rattled by an earthquake ! Whoa !
but sure enough the evening TV local news reported that there had been a small earthquake in the Avon Gorge region of Bristol
One does not expect that sort of thing in England ! :-)
Currently watching the program on More 4 about how the Japanese Tsunami happened. Scarey stuff. :worried: