Author Topic: London Earthquake (Read 539 times)

Krusher · « **on:** September 23, 2002, 01:59:10 PM »

I did not know you guys even had earthquakes.
Hopefully it was very minor.

Krush

Ripsnort · « **Reply #1 on:** September 23, 2002, 02:14:33 PM »

They're all probably AFK

Dowding · « **Reply #2 on:** September 23, 2002, 02:15:37 PM »

London isn't the only city in Britain you know.

It was actually centred on Birmingham and was felt the strongest in the Midlands. Some relatives of mine felt it, although I was asleep.

No one was hurt, but I think it was strong enough to rattle furniture around and smash plates etc.

Puke · « **Reply #3 on:** September 23, 2002, 02:25:33 PM »

Every place in the world has earthquakes. It's just that the consistency of terra firma cany vary from region to region and so some places actually feel them more than other places. Being born and raised in California, I've felt a few good ones in my day.

midnight Target · « **Reply #4 on:** September 23, 2002, 02:29:14 PM »

Which was your favorite Puke?

Mine was the 7.4 Landers quake. I had a 100 year old home about 60 miles from the epicenter. Boy can old windows rattle when they want to! Sucker lasted over 1 minute.....incredibly long time for a quake.

Replicant · « **Reply #5 on:** September 23, 2002, 02:29:29 PM »

Yeah, I felt it, it was quite a good one as far as earthquakes go in the UK. Not sure exactly how long it lasted but it was in the region of 15 seconds.

However they're rather rare, this ones only been my 6th or 7th in my lifetime (29 years).

Regards

Krusher · « **Reply #6 on:** September 23, 2002, 02:38:04 PM »

Quote

Originally posted by Dowding
London isn't the only city in Britain you know.

It was actually centred on Birmingham and was felt the strongest in the Midlands. Some relatives of mine felt it, although I was asleep.

No one was hurt, but I think it was strong enough to rattle furniture around and smash plates etc.

hey tell that too thisislondon.com I just read it, I didnt write it

http://www.thisislondon.com/dynamic/news/story.html?in_review_id=703774&in_review_text_id=677451

Krusher · « **Reply #7 on:** September 23, 2002, 02:40:04 PM »

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Originally posted by midnight Target
Which was your favorite Puke?

Mine was the 7.4 Landers quake. I had a 100 year old home about 60 miles from the epicenter. Boy can old windows rattle when they want to! Sucker lasted over 1 minute.....incredibly long time for a quake.

The closest I came to a quake was watching the A's Vs the Giants world series game a few years back

Ripsnort · « **Reply #8 on:** September 23, 2002, 03:15:25 PM »

I remember hearing somewhere that the "rock" that the UK sits on is some of the oldest in the world, oldest meaning "been along time since 'Cano's formed it"

Charon · « **Reply #9 on:** September 23, 2002, 03:16:30 PM »

We actually had a pretty good quake here in Chicago about 15 years ago -- not major by real earth quake standards -- but unsettling. Just the feeling when looking out at things swaying and moving that houldn't be swaying and moving.

Charon

Vulcan · « **Reply #10 on:** September 23, 2002, 03:23:26 PM »

Meh rutabagas... try living ON a fault line.

Hell, even better, go to work in a building ON the fault line, 28 stories up

Hussein · « **Reply #11 on:** September 23, 2002, 03:30:39 PM »

Biggest I've experienced was 5.5 richters but the epicenter was far far away.

Still it was very unsettling to wake up to your bed shaking and realising you're in the basement with a newborn baby and your wife sleeping.. I really wasn't happy with the thought of a few tons of concrete crushing on me.

gatso · « **Reply #12 on:** September 23, 2002, 03:35:37 PM »

It was a 4.8, happened at 1am local time here.

I was actually playing AH at the time and thought my speakers were playing up at first.

We get these about once every 10 years but it has been a long time since one of this magnitude has been centred on a heavily populated area. UK's bigget ever was a 5.0 but that happened in the middle of the north sea so hardly anyone knew about it.

Its a weird sensation but the thing that got me was how loud it was. Very strange... but also very cool in a funny sort of way.

Gatso

Greese · « **Reply #13 on:** September 23, 2002, 04:11:02 PM »

Here in California...

eskimo2 · « **Reply #14 on:** September 23, 2002, 04:13:08 PM »

A year before I was born, my family lived in Cordova Alaska. Cordova (small fishing/crab town) was the eppicenter of the Great Alaska Earthquake of 64. It hit 9.4 on the richtor scale. My brother Mark (0osik) was a toddler at the time. In the late 80's (I think) he was stationed in Adak Alaska when the second biggest quake to ever hit Alaska. Adak was the eppicenter (small Navy base at Adak).

This makes 0osik the only known survivor of the eppicenters of Alaska's 2 greatest quakes!

He's also the first person (that we could find record of) to put on a fireworks show on the continent of Antarctica! (He was stationed there as well while in the Navy.)

eskimo