Earthquake

[Jerry Howlett]

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.

[Tank]

Scary stuff!  Glad all is well.

[Newportnobby]

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

[Pete Mc]

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

[Jerry Howlett]

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.

[Newportnobby]

Found on t'internet from the Belfast Telegraph
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/earthquake-shakes-northern-italy-16109922.html

[Jerry Howlett]

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....

[Newportnobby]

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'

[galway]

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    which appeared the same night! 

[Mustermark]

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.

[Pete Mc]

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

[Jerry Howlett]

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.

I was waiting for you REAL QUAKIES to one up me. Thanks for your kind thoughts anyway.

[Mustermark]

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.

I was waiting for you REAL QUAKIES to one up me. Thanks for your kind thoughts anyway.

Think of it more as an expression of empathy.

It is very freaky when it happens.

[Fratton]

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,,,,,

[longbridge]

Very pleased you are OK and the layout is still in one piece, here's hoping you don't get anymore shakes.